New research from Professor Daniel Streicker and colleagues has revealed that vampire bat culls may actually exacerbate rabies transmission, rather than reducing it.In this podcast, Anna Kirk chats to Daniel Streicker and Megan Griffiths about their research around vampire bats and rabies virus. Megan's PhD project was focused on the development of a transmissible vaccine using a herpes virus to reduce rabies transmission in vampire bat populations.Read Daniels Science Advances paper 'Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus' here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciad…7437#.ZA2-ZrIC6KoRead the Nature paper which discusses Daniel's work here: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00712-yRead Megan's PNAS paper 'Inferring the disruption of rabies circulation in vampire bat populations using a betaherpesvirus-vectored transmissible vaccine' here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216667120---đŸ”— LinksFollow BatsGoViral Lab on Twitter: twitter.com/BatsGoViralFollow Daniel on Twitter: twitter.com/DanielStreickerFollow Megan on Twitter: twitter.com/Megan3GriffithsFollow Anna on Twitter: twitter.com/Anna__KirkFind out more about the CVR: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/cvr/Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/CVRinfoFollow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/cvrinfo/Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/mrc-uofg-cvr