Several years ago, a widespread fear of SARS made this condition a very hot headline in the news. Because people across the globe were concerned about SARS, you couldn’t turn on a news program without watching at least one story about SARS. Fortunately, because the threat of SARS has slowed down significantly in recent years, it’s not as common to see stories about this condition in the news.

However, while SARS is currently much less of a threat than it was several years ago, that doesn’t mean that it has completely gone away. There are still areas where the threat of SARS is present. In 2011, one of these places is Ukraine. In recent weeks, statistics have shown that SARS is on the rise throughout ten different cities in this country.

Because the threat of SARS has not been fully eliminated, scientists are still investing time and resources in studies to help understand more about this condition. One area where they are focusing some of their attention is bats. At first, bats and SARS may seem like two completely unrelated things. However, many people don’t realize that bats are a common source for spreading diseases. While bats aren’t the only animal that are capable of spreading diseases like SARS, what interests scientists so much is that although bats can transmit very dangerous diseases like SARS, they don’t show signs of having these diseases. Instead, they are able to continue living a normal life without any harmful effects to their health. As a result, scientists are interested in finding out why this happens in bats.