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Scientists Are Begging People to Stop Entering This Virus-Filled Bat Cave

I think I speak for all of humanity when I say let’s make sure that absolutely no humans step foot in a Bat cave teeming with Ebola’s cousin.

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People are understandably a little jumpy when you bring up bats and viruses these days. And yet, some people were not jumpy enough.

Researchers are now basically begging people to please stop walking into a cave filled with bats known to host a pathogen that can make you bleed from your eyes. According to a recent study published in Current Biology, Python Cave in Uganda is a major incubator for the Marburg virus, one of the world’s most lethal pathogens.

Marburg belongs to the same family as Ebola, and it’s about as nasty as its viral cousin. There is no vaccine for it, and according to the World........

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