See inside Tolga Bat Hospital, a place for Australia’s injured and orphaned flying foxes.

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 ...

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 ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—From some 8,000 miles away, Mississippi State scientist Manuel Ruiz-Aravena in the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center is studying flying foxes, or fruit bats, in ...