Last week, Queensland Health alerted the public about the risk of Australian bat lyssavirus, after a bat found near a school just north of Brisbane was given to a wildlife caregiver group. The bat ...

A man in his 50s has died after becoming New South Wales' first confirmed case of the rare and deadly Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV), NSW Health confirmed on Thursday, July 3. The man, from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, health officials said ...

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, health officials said Thursday. The man in his 50s was bitten by a bat carrying Australian bat ...

Large numbers of bats are being found severely emaciated or starved to death in Australia amid a prolonged drought that is crippling their food supply, according to wildlife carers and environment ...

An Australian woman fears she has a fatal virus after getting bitten on the head by a bat while on vacation. “I didn’t want to believe a bat had bitten me,” Sandi Galloway, told the Cairns Post of the ...

A south-east Australian bat that was thought to mainly eat insects also sometimes consumes other bats, according to an analysis of its droppings. The greater broad-nosed bat (Scoteanax rueppellii) ...

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, health officials said Thursday. The man in his 50s was bitten by a bat carrying Australian bat ...