A Case of Fatal Serotonin Syndrome–Like Human Rabies Caused by Tricolored Bat–Associated Rabies Virus

Regunath, Hariharan; Chinnakotla, Bhavana; Rojas-Moreno, Christian; Salzer, William; Hughes, Natalie J.; Sangha, Harbaksh

doi:10.4269/ajtmh.15-0852

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“…The language routinely employed included a repertoire of value-laden terms such as "attacked" (Steece & Calisher 1989), "threat" (Wynne et al 2014), and "fatal" (Regunath et al 2016), and passages were loaded with negative connotations prone to misinterpretation. For instance, authors reported that "many zoonotic viruses that have emerged recently are thought to have their origins in bats" (Wang et al 2015) and that "many emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses derived from wildlife, particularly bats" (Wynne et al 2014).…”

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When bats go viral: negative framings in virological research imperil bat conservation

2017

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The recent upsurge in bat-borne virus research has attracted substantial news coverage worldwide. A systematic review of virological literature revealed that bats were described as a major concern for public health in half of all studies (51%), and that their key role in delivering ecosystem services was disregarded in almost all studies (96%). Although research on zoonoses is of the utmost importance, biased framings of bats can undermine decades of conservation efforts. We urge researchers and science communicators to consider the conservation impacts of how research findings are presented to the public carefully, and, whenever possible, to highlight the ecological significance of bats, their dire conservation situation and their importance for human well-being.

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