Harboring Filoviruses (IMAGE)

University at Buffalo

Harboring Filoviruses

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Research by Derek Taylor has shown that modern marsupials harbor a "fossil" copy of a gene that codes for filoviruses, which cause Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers and are the most lethal viruses known to humans.

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