An elegant way to stop deadly Hendra virus spillovers from bats to horses … to us

(NPR) Not quite 20 years ago, Raina Plowright stood in a forest in Australia’s Northern Territory at dusk. She watched as hundreds of thousands of bats called little red flying foxes launched themselves into the air. “The sky was [dark] with these huge bats taking off in this stream of animals across the landscape looking for nectar,” Plowright says. “So just a deafening roar of bat sound, talking to each other, screeching at each other.”