It's dusk in central Bangladesh, in a community within the district of Faridpur. A 50-year-old man sits outside his home beside a rice paddy. His name is Khokon. A fiery beard, dyed a bright orange, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: India’s tropical state of Kerala has a message for residents: avoid eating fruit clawed or bitten by bats. The warning is ...

A newly recognised bat-borne virus in Bangladesh is forcing scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about emerging infections in South Asia. First spotted in patients who looked like classic ...

A newly identified bat virus has been quietly infecting people in South Asia, slipping past doctors because it looks so much like the deadly brain‑swelling disease caused by Nipah virus. Instead of a ...

It was more than two weeks before doctors even realized what they were treating, the fourth outbreak in five years of the lethal, brain-swelling Nipah virus in India’s Kerala region. By then, hundreds ...

A study conducted by Reuters data analysis found that as more people encroach on bat habitats, the risk of viruses that can jump from bats to humans is expected to rise. Viruses can be transported ...

While bats are found in abundance in most parts of the world, particularly in tropical and temperate climates, they rarely cause problems to human beings. However, over the past several years, bats ...

Coronaviruses from bats have spilled over into human populations several times. These spillovers most likely will continue to be a public health threat. Study: Ecology, evolution and spillover of ...