Infection with Australian bat lyssavirus is serious but extraordinarily rare, and there are effective treatments. So there’s ...

Next to Rockhampton Airport is a large botanical garden filled with thousands of flying foxes, and when the sun sets these creatures come alive and cause headaches for incoming flights.

Last week, Queensland Health alerted the public about the risk of Australian bat lyssavirus ... be exposed to the virus by being under a flying fox roost, even if the bats poo on you.

Eucalyptus trees seem to be their favorite—they follow the trees’ flowering over great distances and farther into the Australian interior than any other bat species. In fact, these flying ...

“They’re continually replacing each other,” says Clare Wynter, flying fox coordinator with Canberra-based rescue organization ACT Wildlife. “You don’t have one bat coming back to the ...

Australian bat lyssavirus belongs to the same group ... You cannot be exposed to the virus by being under a flying fox roost, even if the bats poo on you. You cannot be exposed by having bats ...