A unique infectious disease prevention strategy has emerged that uses mosquitoes to deliver vaccines to bats. The method allows the vaccine to be naturally transmitted when mosquitoes bite bats or ...

Mosquitoes typically spread disease, rather than prevent it, but Chinese scientists have proposed using the insects as an unlikely vector to deliver vaccines to bats.

A deadly fungal disease that has put at least one bat species on the federal Endangered Species List has been detected in Oregon for the first time.

(WTAJ) — Some scientists have successfully used vaccine-carrying mosquitoes to safeguard from deadly diseases, but others question whether it’s practical or even ethical. The experiments are meant to ...

In a new study, bats lap up vaccine-laced saline or chow down on vaccine-carrying mosquitoes. Will that have any impact on the flying mammal's immune system?

A colony of bats near Libby Dam tested positive for the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, marking the first detection of the deadly disease in western Montana. Since it was first observed in New ...

Introduction: The world of bats / Heinz Mehlhorn -- Bats: a glimpse on their astonishing morphology and lifestyle / Volker Walldorf and Heinz Mehlhorn -- Bats as potential reservoir hosts for ...

Bat flies represent a remarkably diverse group of obligate, haematophagous ectoparasites that specialise in parasitising bats. Their evolution is inextricably linked to that of their chiropteran hosts ...