With large numbers of vampire bats spreading disease and causing heavy losses in livestock, over the past 30 years in Latin America there have been large-scale campaigns to restrict its numbers. Unfortunately, this has meant that many insect and fruit eating bats which are beneficial to people have been mistaken for vampires and been killed in large numbers.
大量的吸血蝙蝠傳播疾病、抑制牲畜數量，過去卅年，拉丁美洲曾展開大規模控制蝙蝠數量的計畫，但很不幸，許多以昆蟲、水果為食，對人類有益的蝙蝠，遭到池魚之殃，也被大量撲殺。