A northern NSW man has become the fourth person to die of lyssavirus in Australia. The disease is incredibly rare but ...

A man has died in NSW after being bitten by a bat, in the state’s first confirmed case of the rare - and deadly - disease.

A man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, Australian health officials said.

Unlike rabies, which causes roughly 59,000 human deaths annually, predominantly in Africa and Asia, human infection with bat ...

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, health officials said ...

Australian bat lyssavirus belongs to the Rhabdoviridae family, the same group of viruses that causes rabies. It primarily ...

COVID, the disease that last virus causes, ... The flying foxes missing from that March evening in 2006 pointed Plowright toward many of the interlaced elements driving elevated disease risks.

Every confirmed case in Australia has been fatal. There’s no effective treatment once symptoms present, authorities say, but ...

Flying foxes, you see, subsist on a diet of fruit. ... “How can they handle [sugar] without acquiring some sort of metabolic disease?” Menlo College’s Wei Gordon told NPR.

Batty About Flying Foxes Long considered black devils with wings, ... saga of these strange Australian creatures that have been accused of everything from mad attacks to spreading deadly diseases.

Ruiz-Aravena is lead researcher on a project studying the ecology of Australian flying foxes, which host Hendra virus, a disease primarily found in Australia that can infect both humans and horses.