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Posted inPublic Health

A secret weapon in preventing the next pandemic: fruit bats

More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic. Montana State University researchers, working with others, including Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, are finding links between habitat destruction and the spillover of viruses from animals to humans.