Bats are an ecologically and taxonomically diverse group accounting for roughly a fifth of
mammalian diversity worldwide. Many of the threats bats face (eg, habitat loss, bushmeat …

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the substantial public health, economic, and societal
consequences of virus spillover from a wildlife reservoir. Widespread human transmission of …

Here we describe the complete genome of a new ebolavirus, Bombali virus (BOMV)
detected in free-tailed bats in Sierra Leone (little free-tailed (Chaerephon pumilus) and …

The severe Ebola virus disease epidemic occurring in West Africa stems from a single
zoonotic transmission event to a 2‐year‐old boy in Meliandou, Guinea. We investigated the …

Marburg virus (MARV) has been a major concern since 1967, with two major outbreaks
occurring in 1998 and 2004. Infection from MARV results in severe hemorrhagic fever …

Some filoviruses can be transmitted to humans by zoonotic spillover events from their
natural host and filovirus outbreaks have occured with increasing frequency in the last years …

While the current COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on human health and
national economies, conservationists are struggling to prevent misguided persecution of …

Caves and other subterranean sites such as mines are critical to the survival of hundreds of
bat species worldwide, since they often provide shelter for most of a nation's bat fauna. In the …

Outbreaks of emerging coronaviruses in the past two decades and the current pandemic of a
novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that emerged in China highlight the importance of this viral …

Abstract With> 1 400 species, bats comprise the second-largest order of mammals and
provide critical ecological services as insect consumers, pollinators, and seed dispersers …