Scientists in China have raised "urgent concerns" after discovering at least 20 never-before-seen viruses in bats that live in orchards near human ...

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

A novel virus appears to have jumped from other animals to humans for the first time. And this virus has some really nasty relatives. No, this isn’t 2020 too again. This is a different virus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.

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

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 ...

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.

Early on Sunday, a 12-year-old boy in Kerala, a southern state in India, tragically died from a Nipah virus infection after he had spent about a week in a hospital.

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 ...