Scottish scientists in the Amazon are helping to tackle a growing threat from vampire bats, which carry the deadly rabies virus. Researchers say more humans and livestock are being bitten by the bats ...

Vaccinating vampire bats against rabies can help prevent the spread of the disease to livestock and humans. NPR's Scott Simon talks with epidemiologist Tonie Rocke about a new way to vaccinate bats.

Beware the bat, comics and horror movies would have us believe. But out of the roughly 1,000 bat species that inhabit Earth, only three drink blood, and it’s usually just a sip from an unsuspecting ...

Vampire bats may have earned their name, as the Smithsonian Channel describes them... (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED COMMENTATOR: Vampire bats are the only bats in the world that feed ...