KOZHIKODE: Prof. Stephen Luby, the Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine) at Stanford University in the United States, has said Pteropus genus fruit bat hosts the Nipah ...

The natural reservoir of the Nipah virus is fruit bats (genus Pteropus), also known as flying foxes. Infected fruit bats can spread the virus to people or other animals, such as pigs.

But it turns out the pigs actually got the virus from another animal: It’s now known that fruit bats belonging to the genus Pteropus (otherwise called flying foxes) are the native carriers of Nipah.

Nipah virus is naturally found in fruit bats of the genus Pteropus, though it can jump to other animals, including humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The ...

Flying foxes (in the genus Pteropus) are the largest bats in the world. With around 60 known species, they are found only in the tropics, including Asia, Australia, the Pacific and Indian Ocean.

image: Roosting Rodrigue's fruit bat (Pteropus rodricensis), one of the studied species. Note the large frontally positioned eyes. view more Credit: Dana LeBlanc, Lubee Bat Center, Gainesville, Fla.

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Nipah virus is naturally found in fruit bats of the genus Pteropus, though it can jump to other animals, including humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The ...