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"I put them in the class of mosquitoes," one cantankerous dairy farmer told me. "The animals stink, and all the crap on the floor of their roost is putrid."
"We get bats all through here," she said, pointing out some flowering trees the bats visit. "We've all got a right to live here," she added. "We've just got to learn to live together."
1942-1953 ASM-N-2 Bat
2007 In September 2007, similar expeditions to active mines in Gabon and Uganda found solid evidence of reservoirs of Marburg in cave-dwelling Egyptian fruit bats.
2018 Project DEFUSE (DARPA/PREEMPT/EcoHealth Alliance Grant for Coronavirus Gain of Function Research on bats at the Wuhan Institute of Virology)
2021 The Guardian - The insect apocalypse: 'Our world will grind to a halt without them'
2021 TIM - BREAKING: Gain Of Function Program ALSO Used To Create Vaxx?
2023 Daily Mail - EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists find a NEW bat coronavirus linked to pangolins that has same freak mutation as Covid - and some experts say it shoots down the lab leak theory
2023 The Standard - US 'intentionally released Covid virus in Wuhan' EU summit told
Amongst the works produced on the voyage were series of specimens, including bats obtained in New Guinea, that were deposited and examined at the British Museum of Natural History.
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Despite sampling a wide variety of species (including fruit bats), no Marburg was found and the animal vector remained a mystery. These events were dramatized by Richard Preston in the best-selling book The Hot Zone (1994).
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