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ArticleEcography2024

Climate change linked to vampire bat expansion and rabies virus spillover.

Paige Van de Vuurst, Huijie Qiao, Diego Soler-Tovar, Luis E Escobar

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Article in Ecography, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Equine Rabies in Southern Colombia, 2024-2025.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Paige Van de VuurstVirginia Tech Graduate School, Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Program, Blacksburg VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4221-6881
Huijie QiaoInstitute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5345-6234
Diego Soler-TovarFacultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0002-0451-6368
Luis E EscobarDepartment of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5735-2750

Funding

Mentored Research (K01) Integrative Spatial Epidemiology Study of Wildlife Rabies SpilloverK01AI168452 · NIAID · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI Luis E Escobar · 2023 to 2026
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NIAID NIH HHS K01 AI168452
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bat-borne pathogens are a threat to global health and in recent history have had major impacts on human morbidity and mortality. Examples include diseases such as rabies, Nipah virus encephalitis, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Climate change may exacerbate the emergence of bat-borne pathogens by affecting the ecology of bats in tropical ecosystems. Here, we report the impacts of climate change on the distributional ecology of the common vampire bat

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batsclimate changeemerging infectious diseaserabiesspillover

Identifiers

PMID39712434
PMCPMC11661686

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