Peru’s health ministry has dispatched emergency medical teams to the Amazon rainforest to stanch an outbreak of rabid vampire bats. So far 500+ people have been attacked by the bats, and four have ...

Scientists have detected signs of H5N1 bird flu exposure in bats. The discovery involves vampire bats living along Peru’s coastal regions. The finding raises concerns about new mammal hosts for ...

TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Vampire bats that swoop down after dark to bite cattle in the Peruvian Andes are helping trap farmers in poverty by infecting their animals with fatal ...

You can probably picture a vampire: Pale, sharply fanged undead sucker of blood, deterred only by sunlight, religious paraphernalia and garlic. They’re gnarly creatures, often favorite subjects for ...

Humans are often happy to share food with their friends, but what about animals? Contrary to their reputation, vampire bats are surprisingly social and generous, and a well-fed bat will even ...

A benign, highly transmissible bat virus could help to stop the spread of rabies from vampire bats to humans and livestock 1. Vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are a key source of rabies in Latin ...

A new article predicts that vampire bats -- currently only found in Mexico and Central and South America -- are on the move, with the United States being a viable home in 27 years. Vampire bats may ...

Paige Van de Vuurst, a Ph.D. student in translational biology, medicine, and health, conducts field research on vampire bats in Colombia this summer. Credit: Paige Van de Vuurst Paige Van de Vuurst, a ...

If you’ve ever caught yourself picking up a friend’s accent or slang, you already understand a little bit about vampire bats. A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...

Yes, that's right, contrary to myth, vampire bats don't suck blood. They lap it, like a dog or cat laps water. But first, they make a small cut with their razor-sharp teeth, so sharp, that they can ...

Are climate change and hotter temperatures going to result in blood-drinking vampire bats swarming across Florida? Possibly someday, according to a new study published in the journal Ecography last ...

D. V. VOLOKHOV, D. J. BECKER, L. M. BERGNER, M. S. CAMUS, R. J. ORTON, V. E. CHIZHIKOV, S. M. ALTIZER and D. G. STREICKER Bats (Order: Chiroptera) have been widely ...