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Are bats responsible for any deadly diseases other than Ebola, Marburg, MERS (camels?) and SARS?

• nl 9y ago
  In Australia, lyssaviruses, which are deadly. Also Hendra virus, also deadly.
  • salty_biscuits 9y ago
    They are really just odd versions of rabies though
    • kkylin 9y ago
      Rabies is deadly: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/index.html
      • salty_biscuits 9y ago
        True, I was just highlighting that they aren't really separate diseases to add to the count.
• jxramos 9y ago
  come to think of it, bats are closely related to mice right? Both seem to have a knack for spreading disease it would seem, I wonder what the deal is there.