Airport thermometers, health questionnaires and masked officials are back in parts of Asia as a deadly bat-borne virus revives memories of the early COVID-19 years. Governments are scrambling to ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new bat virus that they fear is already spreading in humans. The infection was spotted in people presumed to have been struck down with Nipah virus – another ...

Scientists in Bangladesh discovered a new bat-borne virus called PRV in five patients who initially appeared to have Nipah virus.

Key points Nipah virus is a bat-borne virus which was first identified in 1998. It is not present in Australia It can cause severe disease with high ...

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 newly recognised bat-borne virus in Bangladesh is forcing scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about emerging ...