Shane Seheult loves bats. Like, really loves bats – like, has a bat tattoo, has been a part of the McMaster Bat Lab for the last eight years, dressed up as a bat to present his bat research, and even runs public Meet-A-Bat days so that other people can meet his favourite creature and get […]

McMaster University recently hosted an international conference on plague research, which brought together the field’s top experts to collaboratively answer some of the most pressing questions about the disease and the bacteria that causes it.   Organized by McMaster Professor Hendrik Poinar in partnership with the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, the conference […]

New research led by McMaster University has helped piece together the earliest days of the outbreak of Marburg virus, a deadly relative of Ebola, which appeared in Ethiopia last year.   Genetic evidence suggests that the outbreak began with a single spillover from animals to humans, followed by rapid human-to-human spread. In the new study, published […]