Insect-Eating Bat May Be Origin of Ebola Outbreak, New Study Suggests

Tuesday, December 30, 2014 - 07:00 in Biology & Nature

A new study suggests that the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa may have started with a small bat species hunted by children in the village where the epidemic began.

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