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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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And sure enough, the natural reservoir of Marlburg, an unpleasant relative of Ebola, was finally identified in was indeed a bat cave I had taken my parents to in Uganda. Hunting, the bush meat trade, habitat loss, population increases, they all have a part to play in this story. The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves.

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