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Host Phylogeny Constrains Cross-Species Emergence and Establishment of Rabies Virus in Bats
5 Aug 2010
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Threats to and from Bats Bats appear to be able to host an assortment of alarming pathogens, which, if they do not extirpate the bats, have implications for human health (see the Perspective by Daszak ). For example, exposure to bats is the main source of human rabies in the Americas. But rabies is not generally transmitted among people; humans are a dead end for the virus. Streicker et al. (p. 676 , see the...
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