Bats in North America are not known to carry Ebola and so CDC considers the risk of an Ebola outbreak
from bats occurring in the United States to be very low.
A collaboration of researchers from the Institute of Virology at the University Bonn, Germany, the University of Stellenbosch and several other South African institutions have recently found evidence that MERS - CoV could possibly originate
from bats occurring in southern Africa.
Not exact matches
And it remains far
from clear that
bats are the hosts of the deadly zoonotic disease since two similar surveys of thousands of animals, including
bats, at sites where human outbreaks
occurred in the past failed to turn up any sign of Ebola virus.
The new model examines how WNS is passed
from bat to
bat and concludes that culling would not work because of the complexity of
bat life history and because the fungal pathogen
occurs in the caves and mines where the
bats live.
The virus, which
occurs naturally in the flying fox (or fruit
bat) population of the region, can be transmitted
from the
bat to horse, which then can transmit it to other horses and humans.
Range The Townsend's big - eared
bat occurs throughout the west and is distributed
from the southern portion of British Columbia south along the Pacific coast to central Mexico and east into the Great Plains, with isolated populations
occurring in the central and eastern United States.