The infected bat no longer poses a threat to the public, but the Genesee County Health Department is urging residents to take precautions against potential rabies exposures.

Bats are known as natural hosts for highly pathogenic viruses such as MERS- and SARS-related coronaviruses, as well as the ...

Scientists trace how the virus behind COVID-19 traveled over 2,000 kilometers from bats in Western China to Wuhan.

Bats harbor viral human pathogens without getting sick. A new cell line could open doors to new therapies based on these ...

Discover how learning more about how bats harbor viruses and infections without becoming ill could help keep humans healthy, ...

SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe ...

Bats are known as natural hosts for highly pathogenic viruses such as MERS- and SARS-related coronaviruses, as well as the Marburg and Nipah viruses. In contrast to the severe and often fatal disease ...

Researchers were able to test how viruses replicate differently across various bat species and organs using the new organoid ...

Did you know that more than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals? Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world's most dangerous viruses, ...

PORTAGE, Mich. — A bat found at Portage's Ramona Park has become Kalamazoo County's first rabid animal of 2025. Saturday, the ...

New genetic analyses reveal that the bat virus ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 likely circulated in Western China or ...