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Australian bat lyssavirus disease
a disease identified in 1996 in Australian fruit-eating flying foxes (Pteropus spp.) in which it is presumed endemic and in which it may cause encephalitis; the virus, of the genus Lyssavirus and the family Rhabdoviridae, has also caused fatal rabies-like illness in persons working closely with infected bats.
bat rabies
caused by rabies-like viruses which are antigenically similar to the classical rabies rhabdovirus. Bats also are common carriers of rabies virus transmitting it to other species and between themselves both by bite and by aerosol inhalation of urine. See also lagos and mokola viruses.

BAT
Blunt abdominal trauma. See Blunt trauma.


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Byline: DEREK McGOVERN THIS time last year Mark Ramprakash was quickening the pulse of blue-rinsed old bats - and I hear the England selectors have him in mind once again for the upcoming Test series in Sri Lanka.
This is despite the fact that their every indiscretion is being filmed for posterity and played back to the headmistress each night over a large bowl of popcorn - or whatever it is posh old bats eat.
 
 
 
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