Bats as a reservoir for viral plague

From Ineffable Island: Cara E Brook et al., "Accelerated viral dynamics in bat cell lines, with implications for zoonotic emergence".

They sometimes call the bat, "the flying rat". As far as disease goes, it may be better to call the rat a sedentary bat. Bats fly from place to place, and then land, picking up whatever sort of bug from the locals. Rabies, most notoriously. As a result, bats have developed an immune system perhaps the mightiest of all mammals. Rodents by contrast tend to migrate only when they have to. Rat-carried plagues tend to spike under sharp climate shifts like the late 530s AD.

The bat is the jetsetting social-liberal of the mammalian world. The globalist.

The moral is: don't eat 'em, and stay far from them.