A horse has died in the south-east from Hendra virus — a deadly disease that can spread from horses to humans.

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 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 ...

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.

A northern NSW man has died after being bitten by a bat, in the first confirmed case of Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) in ...

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

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.

Let’s take disease. This crops up a lot. Flying foxes, like other bats, have remarkable immune systems. They can live perfectly happily with viruses which would lay us out for weeks – or worse.

Flying foxes. Megabats. Fruit bats. Whatever name you choose, these fox-faced creatures are remarkable. Our four species help pollinate eucalyptus trees in eastern Australia, spread the seeds of ...