The Kerala Health officials say that the bat found in the well (of the deceased) could be the primary reason for the casualty in Kozhikode district. Neighbours of the deceased were reported to have seen the victims eating fruits gathered from their land. Whatever may be the conjectures, the level of transference indicates that human beings are also agents of transmission. If a single bat is found infected with the deadly virus, there can be many across the State. A study says that there are more than two dozen types of bats in Kerala (last year, three more were added). However, it need not be the case that all types of bats are carriers of the nipah virus. Yet, it calls for a coordinated study involving medical researchers, environmental experts and ornithologists. They should not sit in their research cocoons while there are issues criss-crossing disciplinary boundaries. Sadly, this is also a time when some “predators-extraordinary” (with a brand name of ‘nature’) jump into ‘conclusions’ that “all this is the result of a big drug mafia.” They must tell how much ‘business’ is in place when there is no therapeutic remedy for NiV infection. Let us not get carried away by such false notions about life and nature. Scientific rationality has its good time and bad time, but let us not let such people to have things blown out of common sense.