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.

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

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

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.

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.

Ticks are spreading beyond traditional regions experiencing an uptick in milder winters, with experts warning about the rise ...

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.

The National Park Service said two bats on the west side of the park and one bat on the east side of the park were found with ...

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

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.