New research from Professor Daniel Streicker and colleagues has revealed that vampire bat culls may actually exacerbate rabies transmission, rather than reducing it.

In this podcast, Anna Kirk chats to Daniel Streicker and Megan Griffiths about their research around vampire bats and rabies virus. Megan's PhD project was focused on the development of a transmissible vaccine using a herpes virus to reduce rabies transmission in vampire bat populations.

Read Daniels Science Advances paper 'Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus' here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciad…7437#.ZA2-ZrIC6Ko

Read the Nature paper which discusses Daniel's work here: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00712-y

Read Megan's PNAS paper 'Inferring the disruption of rabies circulation in vampire bat populations using a betaherpesvirus-vectored transmissible vaccine' here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216667120

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Culling vampire bats may not help rabies spread, but transmissible vaccines might! - Streicker Lab

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Culling vampire bats may not help rabies spread, but transmissible vaccines might! - Streicker Lab

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