https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-pandemic-bats-spillover
https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/nipah/index.html
Once it jumps from bats to humans, the virus can spread from human to human fairly easily by coughing.
Great.
It almost feels like bats have something against us. Cough.
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We’re screwed.
They also have or probably were the original hosts of rabies, Ebola, Marburg, SARS, MERS, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)…
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Except, I love bats! Especially flying foxes.
That said, I am certainly taking to heart warnings that it is likely we will see another pandemic in our lifetimes.
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A mammal that can fly. Not too surprising that it’s overrepresented as a disease vector.
Still not as destructive to the living world as a different mammal that had learned to fly…
Great topic, thanks for posting!
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From the article:
“Outbreaks occur almost annually in parts of Asia, primarily Bangladesh and India.”
I’m not worried. Yet.
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There are links in the article to the other articles in the series. Great read.
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