Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

STORY: India’s tropical state of Kerala has a message for residents: avoid eating fruit clawed or bitten by bats. The warning is meant to prevent further outbreaks of the deadly Nipah virus, which is ...

In 2020, a team of Russian scientists collected a few horseshoe bats in Sochi National Park in southern Russia. The Russians identified, in those bats, a new virus they called Khosta-2. Behaviorally, ...

A study conducted by Reuters data analysis found that as more people encroach on bat habitats, the risk of viruses that can jump from bats to humans is expected to rise. Viruses can be transported ...

A man in his 50s has been hospitalized in critical condition after contracting the Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) in New South Wales, Australia This is the first confirmed case of the virus in the ...

A man is in critical condition after he contracted a rare bat virus while in Australia. It's the first known case of Australian bat lyssavirus in New South Wales. A 50-something-year-old is in ...

A SARS-CoV-2 virus relative that was originally found in Russian bats may be capable of infecting human cells, according to a study. The authors of the paper, which was published in the journal PLOS ...

In Linfa Wang’s ideal world, all humans would be just a bit more bat-like. Wang, a biochemist and zoonotic-disease expert at Duke-NUS Medical School, in Singapore, has no illusions about people ...

It just takes one, and so far that’s what scientists investigating the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak have found — a bat infected with the identical virus that was isolated from human ...

A recently discovered virus in a Russian bat that is similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, is likely capable of infecting humans and, if it were to spillover, is resistant to current ...