Is the Australian bat incident true? Why did bats attack Australia?

Is the Australian bat incident true? Today, there is a rumor online that 600,000 bats attacked Australia. Many people are worried that a new epidemic will occur in Australia. In fact, bats carry many viruses, but if you don't eat them, you won't be infected. Don't worry, only those who are looking for death will be infected, and then harm others. Next, let's take a look at why bats attacked Australia.

Is the Australian bat incident true?

It's true.

The wildfires in Australia are still ongoing. They started burning at the end of September last year and it has been 5 months now.

The wildfires are now approaching the Australian capital, Canberra. 20% of Canberra's territory has been occupied by wildfires.

The country has declared a state of emergency for the first time in 17 years.

At the same time, the fires also caused bats to lose their habitats, and nearly 650,000 black bats flocked to major cities in Australia.

Why bats are attacking Australia

Their habitat has been destroyed. The fire has been burning in Australia for nearly 5 months. Their living environment has been severely damaged. They just want to escape from this place and find a new living space, so they dare to blatantly break into the human world, which shows that they really have no living space and are risking their lives to find a new habitat.

In fact, under normal circumstances, bats are already very low-key. In order not to bring viruses to humans, they almost never come out during the day and hide in narrow crevices where no one is around. However, they are still used as food by some hateful humans.

Will bat attacks in Australia lead to a new epidemic?

Of course not

At present, the new coronavirus is not directly transmitted from eating bats or contacting bats. Bats are only the source, but they are not necessarily directly transmitted to humans. They must be mutated or spread through intermediate hosts. For example, bats cannot transmit the virus to humans, but they can be transmitted to pigs, and pigs can be transmitted to humans. After the virus mutates in pigs, it is suitable for transmission to humans. The Wuhan South China Market is a place where a large number of game animals gather, providing conditions for mutual transmission and mutation. Therefore, it is not the process of eating that infects people, but the process of selling or making. Besides, when eating, the virus is cooked at high temperature and the virus is inactivated, so how can it be transmitted?

The bats mentioned in the question do not come into direct contact with humans, and there is no situation where various wild animals gather densely in one place, so they should be safe.

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Bats are not aggressive and can even coexist peacefully with humans under the same roof in Australia. Bats carry many viruses but are fine because they have high metabolic capacity and have evolved a strong immune system. In addition, bats are born with far more repair genes than other mammals.
If humans had not actively destroyed their habitats and eaten them indiscriminately, they would not have launched an "attack".

Therefore, people really need to have a sense of awe for nature.