A bat found in Lewis County has tested positive for rabies virus at the Washington Public Health Laboratories, according to a news release from Lewis County Public Health and Social Services.

A newly identified bat virus has been quietly infecting people in South Asia, slipping past doctors because it looks so much like the deadly brain‑swelling disease caused by Nipah virus. Instead of a ...

A man in his 50s has been hospitalized in critical condition after contracting the Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) in New South Wales, Australia This is the first confirmed case of the virus in the ...

A bat found Wednesday in Cedar Park has tested positive for rabies, city officials say.

The genes behind bat lifespan overlap with the genes that handle viruses, and one key immune gene comes in up to three copies ...

In Linfa Wang’s ideal world, all humans would be just a bit more bat-like. Wang, a biochemist and zoonotic-disease expert at Duke-NUS Medical School, in Singapore, has no illusions about people ...

An Australian woman fears she has a fatal virus after getting bitten on the head by a bat while on vacation. “I didn’t want to believe a bat had bitten me,” Sandi Galloway, told the Cairns Post of the ...