Epidemic Strain of Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus from a Vampire Bat Captured in Oaxaca, Mexico, 1970

Abstract
A vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, captured in Oaxaca, Mexico, in August 1970, was found to be infected with the epidemic strain of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus at the same time that an equine epizootic was occurring there.