Human Outbreak News Today

But if you left and didnt control the infection and it was passing through lots of birds and lots of human contact, thats where you get the risk of the virus changing more quickly and creating human outbreak. farmers say they need better compensation or for some businesses, this could be their last christmas. claire marshall, bbc news. our top story this evening.... the excitement builds in qatar as england and wales go head to head to head in their crucial world cup showdown tonight. and why sc...

Viruses. >> each bat has the potential to carry rabies, marber and perhaps ebola, some of the deadliest but least understood viruses. >> do you ever get nervous doing this work? >> the risk is low. most of these bats are probably healthy. we can look for antibodies that show they have been exposed. >> why is it important to do this work for public health? >> if you dont know whats in the animals, you wont be able to identify human outbreak quickly. if we know how to transmit, then you can actual...

They represent a big group of mammals. thats why they probably find a lot of viruses in them. there is not a lot of research of how many of those pathogens actually made people sick or animals sick. there is not a direct link between the human outbreaks from the bats. we see some evidence in the bats and we see human outbreaks but we cant say that bat caused the human outbreak. a lot is still unknown, yes. >> a lot still unknown and a lot to keep track of. >> if we look over here, you can see th...

Viruses. >> do you ever get scared? >> the risk is really low. most of these bats that we just caught were flying around. so they are probably healthy. so we will probably look for antibodies that can just show they have been exposed. >> why is it important to do this work for public health? >> if you dont know whats in the animals, you wont be able to identify the human outbreak. most of the time, we only respond when there are a lot of humans. we dont know where the virus and the pathogen came...

Latest updates on this topic.

Latest updates on this topic.