Australia has recorded its fourth death of the bat lyssavirus — a very rare and fatal virus that can lay dormant for years.

A family was left devastated after a dad-of-two contracted a deadly disease similar to rabies when he was bitten by a rabid bat as he tried to remove it from his home ...

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, health officials said ...

Unlike rabies, which causes roughly 59,000 human deaths annually, predominantly in Africa and Asia, human infection with bat ...

The Palakkad district administration said that the team from the National Institute of Virology team has collected samples of ...

Scientists in China have raised "urgent concerns" after discovering at least 20 never-before-seen viruses in bats that live ...

A 50-year-old man dies due to a rabies like illness called ABLV, after getting bitten by a bat several months ago.

The virus -- a close relative to rabies, which does not exist in Australia -- is transmitted when bat saliva enters the human ...

An NSW man has died after being bitten by a bat Health authorities have confirmed that it is a rare case of Australian bat ...

Australian health officials are urging residents to avoid handling bats after a man who was bit months ago reportedly died ...