The recent identification of bats as the potential reservoirs for MARV as well as EBOV [22, 35, 36, 55, 56] will help to increase not only the public awareness, but also the effectiveness of the preventive measures taken in endemic areas to minimize contact with infected animals (i.e. closing of bat inhabited caves for the public, serosurveillance of bat populations) [18, 19] . This is a challenging task, emphasized by the fact that during the last cluster of MARV infections linked to a gold mine in Uganda, the miner hired to enforce the restricted access to the mine got infected. The mine had been closed in response to the ongoing outbreak and even though he was aware of the risk, he had entered the mine without the suggested PPE [19] .