Fruit bats the culprit in spreading Marburg virus

The Marburg virus causes a deadly hemorrhagic fever and is a cousin of the equally deadly but possibly more infamous, Ebola virus.

The researchers discovered the virus in only one common species of fruit bats after testing 1,100 bats of various species; this is the first time it has been detected in an animal other than a monkey.

But the research team which discovered the presence of the virus at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at the Medical Research Institute in Franceville, Gabon, say Marburg may be more common than previously thought.

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