Highlights•Bats are a very important source of emerging viruses.•Bat coronavirus, filovirus,
paramyxovirus and reovirus are known zoonotic viruses.•Many of the emergent bat viruses …

The discovery of Hantaan virus as an etiologic agent of hemorrhagic fever with renal
syndrome in South Korea in 1978 led to identification of related pathogenic and …

The transmission of pathogens from wild animals to humans is called “zoonotic spillover”.
Most human infectious diseases (60-75%) are derived from pathogens that originally …

Rodents represent 42% of the world's mammalian biodiversity encompassing 2,277 species
populating every continent (except Antarctica) and are reservoir hosts for a wide diversity of …

Since the recognition of hantavirus as the agent responsible for haemorrhagic fever in
Eurasia in the 1970s and, 20 years later, the descovery of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome …

Highlights•Biodiversity surveys have revealed additional mammalian hosts of
hantaviruses.•Rodents, bats, and Soricomorpha (moles and shrews) are the most common …

Bats (Chiroptera) are flying mammals of great biodiversity and habits. These characteristics
contribute for them being natural reservoirs and part of the epidemiological cycle of several …

Bats have been increasingly gaining attention as potential reservoir hosts of some of the
most virulent viruses known. Numerous review articles summarize bats as potential reservoir …

Wildlife, especially mammals and birds, are hosts to an enormous number of viruses, most of
which we have absolutely no knowledge about even though we know these viruses circulate …

Background: With the current climate change crisis and its influence on infectious disease
transmission there is an increased desire to understand its impact on infectious diseases …