Could Killing the Bats End New Ebola Transmission? Why Death Won’t Work

Medicine & Technology Dec 30, 2014

Pursuing the newest origin of the viral pathogen deep within the forests of West Africa, health officials believe that they may have found the source of the infection in a hollowed out tree. But the issue is far more complex than many would like to think.

Health Officials Believe They May Have Found Source of Newest Ebola Outbreak

Dec 30, 2014

While the viral pathogen continues to claim lives in West Africa, health officials believe that they may have now found the source of the infection, in a hollowed out tree. After making an expedition to patient zero’s—a two-year-old boy named Emile Ouamouno—hometown in Meliandou, Guinea, researchers believe that they may have found the source of Ebola in a hollow tree the young boy may have played in, which also is home to a colony of bats.

First Ebola casualty was a boy from Guinea, researchers say

Oct 28, 2014

Researchers track roots of the Ebola epidemic to a boy from Guinea