Bats that drink bird blood start biting people

• Autores: Sandrine Ceurstemont
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3109, 2017, pág. 16
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Wild vampire bats that were thought to exclusively feed on bird blood have been caught feeding on people for the first time, raising health concerns. Enrico Bernard at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, and his team analyzed 70 samples of feces from a colony of hairy-legged vampire bats, Diphylla ecaudata, living in Catimbau National Park in north-east Brazil. They found that out of the 15 samples they managed to get DNA from, three contained traces of human blood.