Scientists say insect-eating bats which inhabited a hollow tree in a remote village in Guinea may have been the source of the worlds biggest Ebola epidemic. More than 20,000 cases of Ebola, with at least 7,800 deaths, have been recorded by the World Health Organisation (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 Berlins Robert Koch Institute delved into the circumstances surrounding this first fatality.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:34:38 +0000
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