Scientists have found a new influenza virus that infects bats.
Bat Boy seems to be immune to it, but still… beware! The bat flu
virus is sweeping the globe and can infect people, especially if
Bat Boy decides to send some of his friends your way. According
to Jason Jasonorus, chief of the molecular virology and vaccines
at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Bat
Flu could be more lethal (in a crazy kind of way) than the bird
flu or the swine flu. He and a team of American and Guatemalan
researchers isolated the virus from fruit-eating, little yellow-
shouldered bats in Guatemala. The new virus belongs to a family
of flu viruses called Influenza Bat Boy. Birds are natural hosts
for these viruses, but they are found in other animals, too,
including pigs, seals, ducks, emus, koalas and whales and of
course, humans, according to the CDC. The flu viruses that cause
pandemics generally emerge from infected animal populations. Is
Bat Boy spreading the flu? Is Bat Boy behind a pandemic? Does
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