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fromNature
1 week ago

Daily briefing: Vaccine-carrying mosquitoes could inoculate bats against rabies

Engineered mosquitoes carrying vaccines in saliva show promise for preventing rabies and Nipah virus transmission from bats to humans, though field effectiveness remains uncertain.
fromMail Online
3 weeks ago

Outbreak panic erupts as eye-bleeding virus 'ground zero' is exposed

For the first time, cameras in Africa captured a 'dynamic network' of wildlife interacting with thousands of infected bats believed to be carrying the Marburg virus, which is a rare but extremely dangerous disease that belongs to the same family as Ebola. The new videos revealed at least 14 different types of animals, including leopards, hyenas, monkeys, birds and rats, actively hunting herds of Egyptian fruit bats.
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