Global Update: Bangladesh Bans Sale of Palm Sap After an Unusually Lethal Oubreak

Monday, March 21, 2011 - 20:10 in Health & Medicine

Large fruit bats lap up the running sap, sometimes fouling pots with their saliva, urine or feces; the recent outbreak has killed 35 of the 40 people known to have been infected.

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