It’s dusk in central Bangladesh, in a community within the district of Faridpur. A 50-year-old man sits outside his home beside a rice paddy. His name is Khokon. A fiery beard, dyed a bright orange, ...

Health officials around the world have issued an important update on the recent outbreak of the bat-borne Nipah virus after cases were confirmed in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, prompting ...

A man is in critical condition after contracting a rare bat virus in Australia. The first confirmed case of Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) has been reported in the state of New South Wales, ...

Researchers in Bangladesh have identified a bat-borne virus, Pteropine orthoreovirus, in patients who were initially suspected of having Nipah virus but tested negative. All had recently consumed raw ...

A study conducted by Reuters data analysis found that as more people encroach on bat habitats, the risk of viruses that can jump from bats to humans is expected to rise. Viruses can be transported ...

It was more than two weeks before doctors even realized what they were treating, the fourth outbreak in five years of the lethal, brain-swelling Nipah virus in India’s Kerala region. By then, hundreds ...

May 16 (Reuters) - To understand where a future global health pandemic could emerge, Reuters turned to the past. Sign up here. Specifically, we looked at outbreaks of bat-borne viruses over the past ...