The chestnut-brown bank vole is our smallest vole and can be found in hedgerows, woodlands, ... smaller ears and eyes, and shorter tails than mice. Distribution Widespread, absent from most of the ...

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Bank voles are among the most common rodents in Europe — and are also hosts of the Puumala virus, which in humans can cause a “hemorrhagic fever” that affects various organ systems, damages ...

Bank vole is the most common rodent species in Northern Europe and the reservoir host for Puumala hantavirus and Borrelia bacteria causing Lyme Borreliosis. Credit. Picture credit: Ilze Brila.

Rodents in Sweden are carrying a pathogen that can jump to humans and turn into haemorrhagic fever - with UK tourists in Northern Europe warned.

A potentially deadly virus that can jump from animals to humans is already sweeping through northern Europe, putting the UK highly at risk. The horrifying virus can be transmitted from rodents to ...

A POTENTIALLY lethal virus that has the ability to jump from rodents to humans and can trigger Ebola-like bleeding is spreading across northern Europe. Researchers have discovered that rodents in S… ...

A "vole fever" which can trigger an Ebola-like bleeding virus is "spreading" through Europe. Researchers have discovered that rodents in Sweden are carrying a pathogen that can jump to humans and ...

The bank vole was first discovered in Ireland as recently as 1964 in Co Kerry.There is good evidence from genetic studies that it was introduced in the 1920s with machinery imported from Germany ...