ReviewViruses2026
Bat-Borne Viruses and Pandemic Risk: Could Europe Be an Emergence Hotspot?
Review in Viruses, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
The recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic-which had significant worldwide health, economic, and other effects-indicated the need to monitor zoonotic viruses with pandemic potential. The aim of this review is to assess bat-borne viruses as a potential pandemic risk, with a particular focus on Europe. The presence and activity of bats, as well as diseases emerging in humans in various regions of the world, point to their importance in the context of a possible outbreak of future epidemics. The rate of genetic change observed among viruses requires constant scrutiny on all continents, including Europe. Bats are a considerable source of many zoonotic viruses, including coronaviruses, filoviruses and paramyxoviruses. Among viruses associated with bats, RNA viruses are the dominant ones, characterized by high pathogenicity and often leading to interspecies transmission. The majority (about 80%) of RNA viruses were identified in bats from three families:
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