Interactions with flying foxes pose disease transmission risks to volunteer rehabilitators (carers) who treat injured, ill, and orphaned bats. In particular, Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) can be transmitted directly from flying foxes to humans in Australia. Personal protective equipment (PPE) and rabies vaccination can be used to protect against lyssavirus infection. During May and June 2014...

On March 11, 1950, The Mail, a newspaper published in Adelaide, South Australia, ran the headline “Tiny African jellyfish SA reservoir”. A freshwater? Who would not be interested by that? Admittedly, paper did get some stuff wrong: this creature, Craspedacusta sowerbii (Figure 1), is from “Great Lakes of Tanganyika”, as story implies. And journalist’s scientific source, Mr Ifor Thomas Adelaide ...