Bats in the tropics of the Americas are a reservoir for morbilliviruses—a genus of RNA viruses that includes the human ...

Vampire bats, to be specific. OK, maybe that’s just in the movies, but according to Popular Science, vampire bats may soon swarm the United States in droves unseen since 5,000-plus years ago.

But as agriculture overtakes rain forests and jungles, humans have come into conflict with one bat species: the common vampire bat. In Latin America, vampire bats drink the blood of livestock.