We FINALLY Understand Why Bats Live So LongBats are immune to a cytokine storm and can resist almost every viral pathogen including ebola.
Antiviral Immune Responses of Bats: A Review Although bats have a long history of association with rabies, the emergence and re‐emergence of a number of viruses from bats that impact human and animal health has resulted in a resurgence of interest in bat immunology.
Although bats may be persistently infected with many viruses, evidence from experimental and naturally infected bats has demonstrated that they rarely display clinical symptoms
Dingo 1 points 2 months ago
The first example they give is a fruit bat virus transmuting to a human horse trainer. Last I've heard, the standards on that "virology" shit wasn't very sound.