Emerging infectious disease from bats
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Emerging infectious diseases and re-emerging diseases are defined as new diseases occurred in normal population, or known diseases with dramatically increase in incident rate. Since 1940, there are numerous occurrences of EIDs; most are caused by viruses and most are zoonotic diseases, such as, Ebola diseases, HIV infection, SARS and MERS. Many of the viruses causing these diseases are previously believed to be originating from different kinds of animals. But further studies showed that those viruses actually came from different species of bats. These discoveries essentially transformed bats into one of the most interesting subject of research regarding their unique abilities to carry and transmit diseases, as well as the types of viruses they hold. Present and upcoming studies regarding bats and the diseases they carry should be collected to form a global database, which would be used to further create preventive strategies, surveillance programs, and rapid responses to potential EIDs in the future
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