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Lyssavirus is rare, but deadly. What should you do if a bat bites you?

  • Written by Vinod Balasubramaniam, Associate Professor (Molecular Virology), Monash University
Lyssavirus is rare, but deadly. What should you do if a bat bites you?Ken Griffiths/Getty Images

A man in his 50s has died from lyssavirus in New South Wales after being bitten by a bat several months ago.

This is Australia’s fourth human case of bat lyssavirus and the first confirmed case in NSW since the virus was first identified in 1996 in a black flying fox in Queensland.

So what is lyssavirus? And how can...

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