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Mar 10
March 10
Culling vampire bats failed to beat rabies — and made the problem worse The timing of the cull makes all the difference.

They also found that culling didn’t reduce the numbers of dead livestock — once an outbreak had begun, the burden of disease was the same regardless of whether bats were killed. The finding counters the idea that reducing populations of vampire bats will help to limit rabies outbreaks.

 
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