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Ebola Discovery That May Help Bats

March 17, 2021April 13, 2021 Conservation, Disease

3/16/21By Merlin D. Tuttle Early evidence pointed to great apes1 and humans2 as possible sources of Ebola, but they were assumed to […]

May 15, 2018September 21, 2018 Bat Flash

By Merlin Tuttle 5/15/18 I share Benoit Nyemba and Fiston Mahamba’s concern regarding a potential resurgence of Ebola in […]

June 8, 2017September 21, 2018 Bat Flash, Disease

By Merlin Tuttle 6/7/17 Virologists are still doggedly pursuing the search for an Ebola reservoir in bats, as reported in […]

May 9, 2017September 22, 2018 Bat Flash, Disease

Response to Smithsonian story, “Can Saving Animals Prevent the Next Deadly Pandemic?” Merlin Tuttle 5/9/17 Lorraine Boissoneault’s story, Can […]

April 24, 2016September 23, 2018 Disease

Following years of headline speculation reporting bats to be the reservoir for Ebola, a review of current knowledge points elsewhere. […]

March 3, 2016November 10, 2016 Disease

In Merlin Tuttle’s blogged report titled, Ebola: Bats Prematurely Blamed, released on January 15, 2016, he summarized available knowledge of […]

January 15, 2016February 15, 2017 Disease

Ebola: Bats Prematurely Blamed By Merlin Tuttle 1/14/16 If public health concerns were based on actual threats to human mortality, […]

3/17/2021By Merlin D. Tuttle Throughout the history of bat conservation disease scare campaigns have been a dominant impediment to progress. […]

February 20, 2021March 19, 2021 Bat Flash

The Last Week Tonight with John Oliver February 15th episode shared misguided speculations about bats. Here is Merlin’s public letter […]

January 28, 2021February 19, 2021 Bat Flash

01/28/21 By Merlin Tuttle USA Today’s January 17 story, Where did Covid-19 come from? leads with the following statement “The […]