Bat-Filled Tree May Have Been Source of Current Ebola Outbreak
Tuesday, December 30, 2014 - 10:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In the small village of Meliandou, in Guinea, there stood a tall, hollowed-out tree where children loved to play. But thousands of bats lived in the tree, and one toddler — a 2-year-old named Emile Ouamouno — may have contracted Ebola from playing there.
