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Rabies resistance arises in backwater thick with vampire bats

Residents of two Peruvian communities appear to have survived infection

By Rachel Ehrenberg

- More than 2 years ago

Some people living in a vampire bat–ridden part of the Peruvian Amazon seem to have developed natural resistance to the rabies virus.

Some people living in the Amazon appear to have survived exposure to the rabies virus, a growing concern in communities that have contact with the common vampire bat (shown).