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 ...

Chinese scientists have raised concerns over 20 never-seen-before viruses found in the kidneys of bats mostly found in the ...

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.

Species sampled and DNA extraction. Individuals of three species from the genus Pteropus were analysed. These species are P. scapulatus, P. alecto and P. poliocephalus.Genomic DNA was extracted ...

Nipah virus, first identified in 1998, remains a deadly threat due to bat reservoirs, human practices, high fatality rates, ...

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.

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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.

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 ...