Following a successful pilot study at Bucknell, biology professors DeeAnn Reeder and Ken Field plan travel with students to study African bats' immune responses to the Ebola virus.
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Before COVID-19, the 2014-16 Ebola epidemic was the last major global health scare, and now there are fresh outbreaks of Ebola in the African nations of Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. A common denominator in both COVID-19 and Ebola outbreaks is the role bats may have played in the eventual transmission to humans.
Bucknell University biology professors DeeAnn Reeder and Ken Field have just been awarded a $2.9 million grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for research to gain a better understanding of that role, specifically as it relates to Ebola. Their five-year study will take them to Uganda with a small number of Bucknell undergraduate students to study three native bat species fruit, free-tailed and horseshoe that have varying potential links to the spread of the Ebola virus.
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It s been more than a year since the first cases were identified in China, yet the exact origins of the COVID-19 pandemic remain a mystery. Though strong evidence suggests that the responsible coronavirus originated in bats, how and when it crossed from wildlife into humans is unknown.
In a study published online Jan.12 in the journal
mBio, an international team of 15 biologists say this lack of clarity has exposed a glaring weakness in the current approach to pandemic surveillance and response worldwide.
In most recent studies of animal-borne pathogens with the potential to spread to humans, known as zoonotic pathogens, physical specimens of suspected wildlife hosts were not preserved. The practice of collecting and archiving specimens believed to harbor a virus, bacteria or parasite that s under investigation is called host vouchering.