Skip to content 21st Night A flashcard app for tutors and test-takers Home About Students Tutors Pricing Sign In Try It FREE Back #site-navigation .site-branding .site-branding-container #masthead Posted by Trevor Klee March 30, 2020 March 30, 2020 4 Comments on Why do human beings keep getting diseases from bats? .entry-meta Humans get a surprising number of very infectious diseases from bats. We get SARS (including the recent COVID-19/SARS-CoV2), Ebola, rabies, and possibly mumps . These are all incredibly infectious, deadly diseases. This seems weird because human beings aren’t in particularly close contact with bats. They’re nocturnal, don’t have large city populations (for the most part), and humans don’t eat them that often. It should be harder for diseases to pass from them to us. They’re also not very similar to us genetically, so their d...