Highlights•Bats are a very important source of emerging viruses.•Bat coronavirus, filovirus,
paramyxovirus and reovirus are known zoonotic viruses.•Many of the emergent bat viruses …

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the substantial public health, economic, and societal
consequences of virus spillover from a wildlife reservoir. Widespread human transmission of …

Some filoviruses can be transmitted to humans by zoonotic spillover events from their
natural host and filovirus outbreaks have occured with increasing frequency in the last years …

Following the Ebola virus disease epidemic in west Africa, there has been increased
awareness of the need for improved therapies for emerging diseases, including viral …

Filoviruses, especially Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV), are notoriously
pathogenic and capable of causing severe haemorrhagic fever diseases in humans with …

Bats have received considerable recent attention for infectious disease research because of
their potential to host and transmit viruses, including Ebola, Hendra, Nipah, and multiple …

Identifying virus characteristics associated with the largest public health impacts on human
populations is critical to informing “zoonotic risk” assessments and surveillance strategies …

Bats in the EU have been associated with several zoonotic viral pathogens of significance to
both human and animal health. Virus discovery continues to expand the existing …

In Africa, bat‐borne zoonoses emerged in the past few decades resulting in large outbreaks
or just sporadic spillovers. In addition, hundreds of more viruses are described without any …

Next generation sequencing has revealed the presence of numerous RNA viruses in animal
reservoir hosts, including many closely related to known human pathogens. Despite their …