People keep trespassing near cave filled with bats infected by Ebola’s cousin

You do not want to contract Marburg virus disease (MVD). Formerly known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever, it belongs to the same ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Python Cave tours? The ways disease jumps from animals to humans are evolving

Tourism at a cave swarming with bats known to have transmitted a deadly fever disease? The popularity of Uganda's Python Cave points to yet another way interactions at the animal-human interface—where ...
Nature

‘Bat feast’ animal videos at African cave offer clues to how deadly viruses spread

Researchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot — and caught hundreds of humans ...
The New York Times

Bat Cave Footage Offers Clues to How Viruses Leap Between Species

Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feeding on and dispersing fruit bats that are known natural reservoirs of infectious diseases. By Anthony Ham Bats carry an ...