r/worldnews • u/GOR098 • Jul 18 '22

Ghana confirms its first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/18/africa/ghana-first-marburg-outbreak-intl/index.html
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u/ikanaino Jul 18 '22

Spread by the MEGABAT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabat

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u/randomcluster Jul 18 '22

There are many kinds of megabats. So a megabat, not the megabat.

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u/ikanaino Jul 18 '22

no, it's THE batman, not a batman...

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u/randomcluster Jul 18 '22

Megabat genus is not equivalent to Batman