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> and what a fantastic new path for pathogen transmission Presumably it's been there for a long time and we just noticed.

• chairmansteve 1y ago
  >Presumably it's been there for a long time and we just noticed. As a previous commenter noted, rats are an invasive species in the expanding human/wildland interface. So they will be encountering novel bat viruses. There may be other existing bat to human transmission paths, but maybe not....
• spankibalt 1y ago
  > "Presumably it's been there for a long time and we just noticed." We just noticed bat snatching. I doubt it's new discovery that rats also eat bats whenever the opportunity comes knocking. Also: Bats -> rats -> (house) cats -> humans.