Species-Specific Evolution of Ebola Virus during Replication in Human and Bat Cells. Cell Reports , 2020; 32 (7): 108028 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108028 Cite This Page : ...

Scientists have discovered 20 new bat viruses in China, including strains related to Nipah and Hendra, raising global health ...

The researchers tested 169 bats, including fruit bats and a few from the species that lived in the tree. None tested positive for Ebola, but that doesn't disprove the hypothesis because experts ...

Ebola virus and bats have been waging a molecular battle for survival that may have started at least 25 million years ago, according to a study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of ...

In March, Guinean officials banned the consumption of bat soup and grilled bats. According to the researchers, free-tailed bats are believed to have been linked to previous, smaller Ebola outbreaks.

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of Ebola virus, called Bombali virus, that's carried by at least two species of bats in Sierra Leone.This is the first Ebola virus species ...

Bats can carry more than 100 different viruses, including Ebola, rabies and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), without becoming sick themselves ...

A new paper outlines five steps required for a virus to ‘spill over’ from bats to humans. But don’t just blame the bats—deforestation and hunting are to blame, too.

New viruses that are genetically similar to known fatal viruses have been discovered near food sources in a concerning new ...

Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses are not definitively known. In a study led by the University of ...

This raises fresh concerns about the risk of animal pathogens infecting people.  Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Viruses from bats are likely to be more deadly to humans than viruses from other animals, due to bats' evolved resistance to inflammation. U.S. ... Stock illustration of Ebola.