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This Kenya Cave, Believed To Be Source Of Ebola, Could Cause Next Pandemic: WHO Issues Warning About Marburg Virus Outbreak. The 600-foot-deep cave has been continuously dug and expanded by ...
This Kenya Cave, Believed To Be Source Of Ebola, Could Cause Next Pandemic The 600-foot-deep cave has been continuously dug and expanded by elephants, only to have disease-carrying bats make it ...
Carved by the tusks of elephants, who visit its caverns to scrape the walls for salt, Kitum cave in Kenya hosts some of the deadliest pathogens known to man. In 1980, a French engineer from a ...
Located in Kenya's Mount Elgon National Park, the Kitum Cave was reportedly the origin point for the Ebola and Marburg viruses, of which the latter has been termed as 'epidemic-prone' by the World ...
Kitum is deep within what was once a molten sea. Mineralized logs jut out from the cave walls. So do all sorts of bones, from animals like crocodiles, hippos, and elephants. It's eerily beautiful. In ...
At least 14 more Ebola patients have died in the past week - taking the death toll from the outbreak of the deadly virus in Uganda to 129. And Kenyan health authorities said more than 100 Ugandans ...
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Kenyan health officials are investigating a suspected case of Ebola in the country's west near Uganda, where an outbreak of the deadly virus has been blamed for at least 35 cases and seven deaths.
Inside 'world's deadliest cave' that could cause next pandemic: Kitum in Kenya gave rise to Ebola and 'eye bleeding' Marburg virus. Fatal 'hemorrhagic' or blood-letting fevers emerged from Kitum ...
Ebola, Marburg, and a Real Life Cave of Death. By Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience - October 14, 2014. Email. Print. Comments. The expansive mouth of Kenya's Kitum Cave can appear out of nowhere.