By Hank Sanders A patient who was exposed to a bat in western Minnesota this year died from rabies this week, becoming the fifth person since 1975 to die from the treatable disease in the state ...

A Minnesota senior died from rabies after coming into contact with a bat, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) said on Friday. A person over the age of 65 was exposed to a bat in western ...

A northern long-eared bat, seen here, has been hit hard by white-nose syndrome. The fungal disease has killed millions of bats across North America. (AP) A deadly pandemic has decimated bats in ...

Francesca Brittan, associate professor of music at the College of Arts and Sciences, was selected as a scholar-in-residence at The Bard Music Festival alongside colleague Sarah Hibberd of Bristol ...

A new study shows that when communities experienced the near death of entire insect-eating bat populations, farmers increased their use of pesticides. This in turn increased the infant mortality rate.

There's long been a debate in baseball circles about the respective benefits and drawbacks of using wood bats versus metal bats. However, there are relatively few scientific studies on the topic ...

A new study finds that when bats in U.S. counties were decimated by the deadly white-nose syndrome, human deaths followed closely behind Rudy Molinek Mass Media Fellow, AAAS Healthy little brown ...

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Without bats to eat insects, farmers turned to more pesticides, a study found. That appears to have increased infant deaths. By Catrin Einhorn The connections are commonsense but the conclusion is ...

The decline of bats in the US due to the spread of a fungal disease reduced farmers’ earnings and led to an additional 1300 deaths in children under 1 year old, a study has reported. In counties ...

The study compared the effect of bat die-offs from White-Nose Syndrome on pesticide use in counties that experienced bat population declines to counties that were likely unaffected. It found that ...