Can a bat give you the mumps? Well, sort of...

Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 17:50 in Biology & Nature

Much of a family of viruses containing a variety of disease-causing nasties, from the mumps virus to Hendra, appears to have jumped from bats to other animals, including us,a new study suggests.

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