Why Killing Vampire Bats Doesn't Stop Rabies

Monday, December 2, 2013 - 16:30 in Biology & Nature

Controlling the population of vampire bats, using poison or even explosives, has been a decades-old way of trying to curb the spread of rabies in Latin America, but new research suggests culling bat colonies does little to reduce the spread of the virus.

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