Scientists discovered a new retrovirus “fossil” found in the common vampire bat which is homologous to retroviruses in rodents and primates. The results suggest the recent circulation of an active ...

Sometime before 2016, a common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, was captured or observed within roughly 50 kilometers of the Texas border. The record, confirmed by the USDA’s National Wildlife Research ...

A roost of common vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus. Credit: Uwe Schmidt/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 Vampire bats have complex social networks, forming relationships with other bats that can vary on ...

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A benign, highly transmissible bat virus could help to stop the spread of rabies from vampire bats to humans and livestock 1. Vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are a key source of rabies in Latin ...

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