This place is called Kitum Cave. If you come as a visitor, in all likelihood, you will fly into the Nairobi airport, secure a vehicle and travel the Kinshasa highway toward your destination.

Kitum Cave is, in fact, a petrified rain forest. Seven million years ago, the volcanic Mount Elgon erupted and buried the surrounding rain forest in ash. Kitum is deep within what was once a molten ...

Meanwhile, in 1980, while investigating Kitum Cave, a French engineer employed at a nearby sugar mill came into touch with the body-melting Marburg virus. He soon died at a Nairobi hospital.

Africa's historic caves give you a rare peek into the continent's opulent past. These natural wonders are not just geological ...

Kitum Cave entrance. Image credit: Nina R via Wikimedia Commons ( CC BY 2.0 ) The entrance is idyllic and is found behind a beautiful waterfall and bountiful foliage.

Inside 'world's deadliest cave' that could cause next pandemic: Kitum in Kenya gave rise to Ebola and 'eye bleeding' Marburg virus. Fatal 'hemorrhagic' or blood-letting fevers emerged from Kitum ...

Located in Kenya's Mount Elgon National Park, the Kitum Cave was reportedly the origin point for the Ebola and Marburg viruses, of which the latter has been termed as 'epidemic-prone' by the World ...

Mount Elgon is a now-dormant volcano on the border of Kenya and Uganda. On the mountain's side is Kitum Cave, which is thought to have been partly dug out by some very persistent elephants. The cave ...

Speaking at a Zoom meeting of the Rotary Club of Tiverton Stephen Powles spoke on a range of things, his subject this time concerned cave mining elephants of Mount Elgon on the Ugandan/Kenyan border.

Carved by the tusks of elephants, who visit its caverns to scrape the walls for salt, Kitum cave in Kenya hosts some of the deadliest pathogens known to man. In 1980, a French engineer from a ...

Stories of the cave mining elephants of Mount Elgon shared by Devon explorer Stephen Prowles speaks of his wealth of experience. Comments. News. Lewis Clarke. 09:17, 26 Jan 2023.