Aug 3, 2017 04:17 AM
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...es/535521/
EXCERPT: No one knows where it came from, how it spreads, or why it infects so many mammal species. [...] Leendertz and his colleagues from the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin have now shown that it’s a startlingly prolific killer, responsible for more than a third of mammalian deaths in the Taï forest. And it is likely to wipe out the local chimpanzees within the next 150 years....
EXCERPT: No one knows where it came from, how it spreads, or why it infects so many mammal species. [...] Leendertz and his colleagues from the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin have now shown that it’s a startlingly prolific killer, responsible for more than a third of mammalian deaths in the Taï forest. And it is likely to wipe out the local chimpanzees within the next 150 years....
