Bats are beneficial to the ecosystem and rarely dangerous to humans. An infected bat can transmit rabies, a potentially fatal disease. Here's what happens if a bat bites you and what to do next. Bats ...

Bats tend to have a bad rep with people (well, maybe outside the goth community, anyway). These creatures of the night are frequently accused of sucking blood, spreading rabies, and generally giving ...

Two recent fatal rabies cases in Minnesota and California have underscored bats as the leading source of human rabies deaths in the United States. While bats account for about 35% of reported animal ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature's Communications Biology sheds new light on the relationship between bats and dangerous viruses. Led by researchers at the University of Oklahoma, the study ...

Bats are a familiar sight in Arizona’s night skies, fluttering above saguaro silhouettes, gobbling up mosquitoes and pollinating desert plants. Bats are mostly helpful, rarely harmful and play a vital ...