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

A man who died after contracting the first recorded case of a rare virus in New South Wales has been identified as a carpenter and father of three.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The man dies several months after contracting Australian bat lyssavirus – a pathogen closely related to rabies ...