Rwanda’s Mine-dwelling Bats Linked to Deadly Marburg Outbreak  

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A tin mine in Kigali has been identified as the source of Rwanda’s first Marburg virus outbreak, which killed 15 people and infected 51 more in 2024. Authorities traced the infections to one of the mine’s tunnels, where a 10,000-strong colony of Egyptian fruit bats roosts. Rather than closing the mine, the Rwanda Biomedical Center… Read More »Rwanda’s Mine-dwelling Bats Linked to Deadly Marburg Outbreak

  

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