Why bats don't get sick from the viruses they carry, but humans can
Bats carry a lot of viruses, some of which make people sick. So why don't bats get sick from these pathogens?
Livia O. Loureiro
Research Fellow, The Cente for Applied Genomics — Sickkids Hospital, University of Toronto
Livia O. Loureiro is a research fellow in The Centre for Applied Genomics in The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. After completing her undergraduate and master degree on evolution of bats in Brazil, she joined the mastozoology laboratory in the Royal Museum and the University of Toronto, where she completed her doctorate in genetics, behavioral and morphological adaptive evolution of bats. She has traveled to seven countries conducting fieldwork on mammals and published 19 papers and book chapters on bats.
