Vampire bats in Peru are increasingly biting people, and a National Geographic researcher is trying to find ways to stem the resulting spread of deadly rabies. Video.
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An outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats kills four children in the Peruvian Amazon.
... Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina, Common vampire bats transmit infectious diseases such as rabies ... grant from the National Science Foundation for a three-year study of rabies in vampire bats in Peru ...
Scientists have discovered how vampire bats use their infrared detectors to find the right spot on their warm-blooded prey to bite.
A teenager from Mexico became the first person in the United States to die after being bitten by a vampire bat and infected with rabies, US health authorities said on Thursday.
Killing vampire bats in a bid to curtail the spread of rabies to humans and livestock may make the problem worse, scientists said Wednesday.
... immediately treated, scientists studying remote populations in the Peruvian Amazon at risk of rabies from vampire bats found 11 percent of those tested showed ...
... )—BBC documentarians filming for a special called "Penguins: Spy in the huddle" have captured video of vampire bats feeding on juvenile Humboldt penguins ...
... in remote villages in Venezuela, and medical experts suspect an outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats. Laboratory investigations have yet to confirm ...
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: They're coming to drink your blood ... and sometimes it's for your own good. Get the facts about vampire bats, leeches, bedbugs and other bloodsuckers.
A 15-year-old boy from Brazil who contracted rabies from the bite of a vampire bat is recovering after doctors used a novel treatment developed at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
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... Ministries of Health and Agriculture, will explore how human activities affect the transmission of the rabies virus in vampire bats in Peru--and how those changes might alter ...
