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 ...

Officials in southern India are working to stem a potential outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus after a boy died from the rare virus last week, according to news reports. The 12-year-old boy was ...

Abstract We examine the effect of body mass on milk composition among Old World fruit bats, including Pteropus pumilus (0.175 kg), Pteropus rodricensus (0.265 kg), Pteropus hypomelanus (0.571 kg), and ...

A deadly viral disease spread by bats is once again infecting humans, but in this case, it isn’t Ebola. As of June 1, an outbreak of the Nipah virus has infected at least 18 people and killed 17 in ...

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 446-452 (7 pages) Although bats of the genus Pteropus are important ecologically as pollinators and natural hosts for zoonotic ...

Fruit bats are seen as they rest on tree branches within the forested area of Subic Bay in the province of Olongapo, north of Manila, March 6, 2009. REUTERS/John Javellana A deadly virus, first ...

This release is also available in German. The retinas of most mammals contain two types of photoreceptor cells, the cones for daylight vision and colour vision, and the more sensitive rods for night ...

Flying Fox: Fruit bats belonging to the genus Pteropus, known for their large size and distinct characteristics. Flying snakes: These snakes are found in Western India and the islands of Indonesia, ...

DURING field investigations by one of us (L. C. R.) there was observed a fairly close relation in season and place with areas of the city of Townsville, North Queensland, Australia, in which an ...

In a contest to find the animal which makes people cringe most, the bat must surely rate very high. Certainly among the first three alongside snakes and spiders. Although the vast majority of people ...

Officials in southern India are working to stem a potential outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus after a boy died from the rare virus last week, according to news reports. The 12-year-old boy was ...