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These are just vampire bats, however South American bloodsuckers used to attack only wild birds. And suddenly… addicted to drinking blood from people, which created a serious problem, since it contributes to the spread of mass diseases, for example, Ebola.
Scientists came to this conclusion not immediately, but since the inhabitants Brazil began to complain more often that they were being harassed by volatiles bloodsucking mice, had to check this version. After all, before this case little vampires have always used blood exclusively wild birds, so researchers at the Federal University of Pernambuco, what is in Recife did not even immediately believe in “human version “and carried out a series of tests to select bipedal vampires (Diphylla ecaudata) excrement, which, unfortunately, were found fragments of human DNA. That is, these bats on actually attack people who sleep most often and drink them blood.
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As explained by one of the scientists at the University of Bernard, engaged in now this problem, vampire mice began to attack people, rather due to lack of food, as the population of wild birds in Kathimbau National Park, near which it was mainly seen this “vampirism” has fallen sharply. In order to survive, the borefoot vampires simply had to find another source of blood for themselves. And they turned out to be a man, as well as domestic animals and a bird.
This discovery, on the one hand, speaks about environmental problem, and on the other – exacerbates the medical problem. TO distributors of various epidemics, among which the first mosquitoes stand out, now also volatile vampire mice. Scientists advise residents of Brazil to close windows net and in no case sleep in the open air, in particular, in Brazilian hammocks. Another way to deal with no bats bloodsuckers yet …
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