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Bats, Bat-Borne Viruses, and Environmental Changes

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dc.abstract.enDuring the past decade, bats were shown to a major source for new viruses. Among them are well known coronaviruses such as SRAS or MERS but also Ebola. At the same time, no direct infection from bat to human has been demonstrated. The dynamic of transmission of bat-borne viruses is therefore a complex process involving both sylvatic and urban cycles, and intermediate hosts not always identified. The threat potentially exists, and drivers must be sought for man-made environmental changes. Anthropized environments are mosaic landscapes attracting at the same place different bat species usually not found together. Anthropized landscape is also characterized by a higher density of bat-borne viruses. The threat of new bat-borne virus outbreaks has greatly increased in the recent years along with media anthropization and the extremely rapid deforestation process. Deforestation could be a major contributing factor to new viral emergences due to more frequent contacts of livestock and humans with bats possibly containing infectious viruses.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorAfelt, Aneta
dc.contributor.authorFrutos, Roger
dc.contributor.authorSerra-Cobo, Jordi
dc.contributor.authorDevaux, Christian
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-28T20:03:23Z
dc.date.available2024-01-28T20:03:23Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.identifier.doi10.5772/INTECHOPEN.74377
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/150996
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.intechopen.com/chapters/59594
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationearth and related environmental sciences
dc.relation.bookBats
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enbats bat-borne viruses environment landscape change anthropization emergence
dc.titleBats, Bat-Borne Viruses, and Environmental Changes
dc.typeMonographChapter
dspace.entity.typePublication