Hibernation keeps rabies going in bats

Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 15:00 in Biology & Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, infectious disease biologist Dylan George from Colorado State University reports that a bat’s hibernation is what keeps the rabies virus alive and does not wipe out the bat before the virus can spread.

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