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Fast-spreading virus could help to slash rabies in vampire bats

A virus that readily infects bats without harming them could spread a vaccine throughout a population.
Common vampire bats roosting together

Rabies outbreaks in vampire bats could be sharply reduced with the use of a vaccine carried by a harmless virus. Credit: Daniel Streicker

A benign, highly transmissible bat virus could help to stop the spread of rabies from vampire bats to humans and livestock1.

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Nature 615, 769 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00770-2

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  1. Griffiths, M. E., Meza, D. K., Haydon, D. T. & Streicker, D. G. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 120, e2216667120 (2023).

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