Bats are natural reservoir hosts for viruses that cause higher case fatality rates in humans than do zoonoses derived from any other source (IMAGE)

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Bats are natural reservoir hosts for viruses that cause higher case fatality rates in humans than do zoonoses derived from any other source

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Pteropus rufus, the Malagasy Flying Fox, in flight over Madagascar.

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Michael McGuire (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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