SCHOOL groups and tourists are visiting a cave with bats that carry Marburg virus, previously flagged as having pandemic potential. “Python Cave”, in western Uganda, is home to tens of thousands of ...
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How does Marburg virus spread between species? Young Ugandan scientist's photos give important clues
In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a bat. But this is no ordinary bat colony. The thousands of Egyptian fruit ...
Egyptian rousette bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), such as those photographed here in 2017 at Python Cave, Uganda, have been identified as the natural reservoir for Marburg virus, the first known ...
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