extreme temperature event and mass mortality of insectivorous bats. | a mass mortality event involving chaerephon plicatus and taphozous theobaldi bats occurred during a heat wave in april 2016 in cambodia. this was investigated to clarify the causes of the die-off and assess the risk to public health. field evidences, clinical signs, and gross pathology findings were consistent with a heat stress hypothesis. however, the detection of a novel bat paramyxovirus raises questions about its role as a contributing factor or a coincidental finding. systematic documentat ... | 2019 | 32214949 |