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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Chinese virologists develop vaccine-carrying mosquitoes to immunise bats against rabies and Nipah

Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology - (AFP via Getty)

Chinese scientists have developed vaccine-carrying mosquitoes to bite and immunise bats against rabies, a new strategy that could help deter the jumping of pandemic-potential viruses from animals to humans.

Bats are infamous as reservoirs of viral pathogens like rabies and Nipah viruses, making them one of the key culprits for “spillover” events of viruses passing from a bat to a human.

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