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Coronavirus first appeared among workers clearing bat faeces from Chinese mineshaft scientists say

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Coronavirus first appeared among workers clearing bat faeces from Chinese mineshaft back in 2012 and may not have come from Wuhan market, scientists say Miners were removing bat faeces from the Mojiang mine in Yunnan province  Six fell ill with a pneumonia-like illness which resulted in three of them dying Sample tissue from patients with were sent … Read more

Gold prospector rescues a kangaroo that survived after falling 11 metres down an abandoned mineshaft

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A kindly gold prospector has saved a kangaroo and her joey after she fell down an abandoned mine. The prospector spotted the kangaroo when he heard a sound coming from the 11metre deep mine shaft outside Vaughn, Victoria, 120km north-west of Melbourne on Sunday. When he looked down the hole, he spotted the kangaroo at the … Read more