Many viruses have been linked to bats, as they are known disease carriers. The Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, and Hendra viruses originated from bats. So did coronaviruses like SARS-1 and MERS.

While the results contain no direct evidence of bats infected with Ebola near Meliandou (the confirmed epicenter of the Ebola outbreak), Leendertz suggested that the toddler could have picked up the ...

Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories.

“This includes viruses in the paramyxovirus family, such as Hendra and Nipah virus, lyssaviruses like rabies, filoviruses, which includes Ebola and Marburg, and then of course, coronaviruses.” There ...

Why bats can harbor viruses like hantavirus and coronavirus—pathogens that are highly dangerous to humans—without becoming ...

Their bites are so dangerous but tiny and painless that when they bite until and unless there is no blood loss or infection, ...

Then, with a cry of “Here we go,” he hurled rocks onto the corrugated-tin roof and against metal shutters, sending a dozen panicked bats, some of them possibly infected with Ebola, toward the ...

If Ebola virus was in his body, where did it come from? Under SuspicionStraw-colored fruit bats swarm in an Ivory Coast village. Fruit bats, some of which have been suspected of carrying Ebola ...

Nobody knew it yet, but the world’s worst Ebola outbreak had just begun. It’s impossible to prove that the kola tree was the source of the epidemic. Scientists are fairly sure that bats are th ...

The Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in Africa, one in the Sudan and the other in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Believed to be transported by fruit bats ...