iD Ideas Discoveries March 2017

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VIRUS


THE FLYING


Fruit bats carry within them
more deadly viruses than
the shelves of the world’s
high-security laboratories.
But why do other animals
or humans die from these
pathogens while the host
vectors themselves do not?
Does the key to combating
the planet’s most dangerous
diseases lie in their genes?

Science
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