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Health investigators search for virus reservoir

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    Meanwhile, an international health team that visited Durba from 13-29 October to investigate the area's haemorrhagic fever situation is currently preparing a report on its findings, the WHO official said. The team - comprising officials from WHO, the Pasteur Institute, the US Centers for Disease Control and South Africa's National Institute of Virology, as well as local health authorities - interviewed survivors and victims' family members, took blood samples and collected bats, rats and insects to try to identify the "reservoir" for the virus, the official added.

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