Xi'An, China - October 14, 2024 On October 14, 2024, in Xi’an, Shaanxi, located in northwestern China, students were startled to find a large brown bat hanging upside down from their classroom door.

Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses are not definitively known. In a study led by the University of ...