Pic related is the Hammer-Headed bat. It lives in Africa and has been found to carry ebola. In America, bats are known to carry rabies and histoplasmosis. In fact, rabies was what killed the rapper Lil Bout It back in 2002 as well as Democratic Mississippi House of Representatives member from the 122nd district David Baria’s son in 2005. How many diseases do bats actually carry? Mice have been known to carry the bubonic plague and hepatitis e, but are bats exactly more disease ridden than rodents? I know that rabies is rare among mice.