The Hot Zone
What types of organisms did the Kitum Cave team trap and test for Marburg?
page 141- 153
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The team trapped bugs, birds, rodents, hyraxes, and bats.
They collected somewhere between thirty thousand and seventy thousand biting insects inside the cave— the cave is full of bugs.The Kenyan naturalists trapped and netted hundreds of birds, rodents, hyraxes, and bats.
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Preston, Richard (2012-03-14). The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (p. 146). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
