Tuesday, 18 April 2017

PRO/AH/EDR> Bat Lyssavirus - Taiwan

Other Animal Disease -- China
A Japanese house bat found dead in Yunlin last week [week 10-16 Apr 2017] tested positive for lyssavirus. Gene sequencing showed that it was 98.7 percent similar to the virus found in another Japanese house bat in November last year [2016].
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Communicated by:
ProMED-mail from HealthMap Alerts

[This novel virus was reported in November 2016 (see ProMED post http://bit.ly/2o1zjQc).
Bats are the natural reservoirs of most lyssaviruses. Bat lyssaviruses, reported

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2olzamM

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