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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ProMED-mail from HealthMap Alerts
[This novel virus was reported in November 2016 (see ProMED post http://promedmail.org/post/20161114.4627752).
Bats are the natural reservoirs of most lyssaviruses. Bat lyssaviruses, reported
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