Species of bats that are feeding with blood, from Peru, have increased the number of attacks on humans and the problem is the transmission of rabies.
While the rabies turn any creature into an aggressive one, in case of vampire bats, the symptoms are disorientation followed by muscle weakness and ultimately death.
Their bite is shallow so that victims do not realize that they were attacked. Along with the bringing of cattle in Peru,as about 500 years ago, the bat population has increased. Due to deforestations and loss of animals from Amazonian forests, bats have found another source of food: people. Researchers are trying to control rabies through the thorough analysis of the bats from these places, so that, in the future,to succeed in predicting the areas inhabited by people who should be vaccinated.
So, the main problem induced by the bites of vampire bats is not the blood sucking, but the transmission of rabies.
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