A Viral Witch Hunt - Bats and COVID-19
4/2/2020 Merlin Tuttle's op-ed, “A Viral Witch Hunt,” published in Issues in Science and Technology on March 27, 2020 illustrates how misguided focus on bats as sources of scary diseases threatens an invaluable...
Concerns for COVID-19 Bat Management in North America
04/09/2020Merlin D. Tuttle I am writing in response to the unprecedented situation now presented by COVID-19 in North America. Early suggestions regarding potential transmission of SARS-CoV2 from humans to bats...
COVID-19 Coronavirus Leads to More Premature Scapegoating of Bats
COVID-19 Coronavirus Leads to More Premature Scapegoating of Bats January 30, 2020March 26, 2020 Bat Flash, Disease By Merlin TuttleUpdated 03/26/20 The source of human exposure to the...
Bat Rabies Risk in Perspective
By Merlin Tuttle Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation If public health warnings were based on actual risk, rabies from bats would be near the bottom of the list. On a...
Human Health Concerns and Bats
Rabies and bats Rabies is the most important public health hazard associated with bats, but its impact has been vastly exaggerated. The first State to report rabies in a bat...