Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Bats in the Hollow Tree - Ebola's Ground Zero

The source of the world's biggest Ebola epidemic might have been the insect-eating bats that inhabited a hollow tree in a remote village Guinea, said scientists on Tuesday. More than 20,000 cases of Ebola, with at least 7,800 deaths, have been recorded by the World Health Organization (WHO) since a two-year-old boy died in the village of Meliandou in December 2013. Reporting in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine, scientists led by Fabian Leendertz at ...

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