Flu Viruses Newly Found At Bat

The devil bats are also known in latin as Murina beelzebub.
ATLANTA-a new type of influenza virus A in Albania on a devil's fruit-eating bat. This discovery marks a new knowledge that the bats, as well as birds, could also be the source of the carriers of the flu virus. ' It became the first invention identified influenza virus in bats, but in the form now, the virus is not harmful to humans, ' said Suxian Tong, an expert in viral virus that arbroath. Influenza A Virus detected in the 3 samples from 316 bat serrated yellow that inhabit two different areas in the region of Guatemala. Devil bats will bite humans, not because they only eat the fruit. Tong, who is also head of the pathogen discovery program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to preach that the study is very important because it gives an indication of the animals that could be the source of the spread of a virus. Previous flu viruses that caused the pandemic H1N1, found, for example comes from an animal. The Virus is then changed and underwent a mutation that could quickly infect humans. '' Fortunately, this newly discovered viruses will still need to make significant changes to invade and spread into the human body easily, ' said Ruben Victor, head of Molecular Virology and Vaccine Branch in CDC'S Influenza Division at, as reported by AFP, Wednesday (28/2/2012). Despite that, this new virus infects predictable can also other animals such as horses, pigs and dogs. The discovery of this new virus will be published in the journal the Proceeding of the National Academy of Science.