Scientists in Bangladesh discovered a new bat-borne virus called PRV in five patients who initially appeared to have Nipah virus.

A newly identified bat virus has been quietly infecting people in South Asia, slipping past doctors because it looks so much ...

We know that diseases can occasionally jump from species to species, including from other species to humans, but scientists have found why diseases from bats are more deadly to humans than any other.

Between late 2022 and early 2023, five patients arrived at hospitals in Bangladesh with symptoms that screamed “Nipah virus.” They were feverish, struggling to breathe, and slipping into dangerous ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new bat virus that they fear is already spreading in humans. The infection was spotted in people presumed to have been struck down with Nipah virus – another bat-borne ...

Researchers in Bangladesh have identified a bat-borne virus, Pteropine orthoreovirus, in patients who were initially suspected of having Nipah virus but tested negative. All had recently consumed raw ...

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