The source of the Ebola disease would be a welcome discovery.
The last two outbreaks of Ebola was located in the (DR) Congo. Those two outbreaks were located in the Kasai Occidental Province. The epicenters were not located within the Bulape Health Zone. But they were close enough to affect health care measures.
For me, it has been too close for comfort.
Virus Hunters Find Ebola, Marburg Source in Fruit Bat (Update1) - Bloomberg.com.
Scientists are closing in on the source of Ebola and Marburg, two of the world’s most-lethal infectious diseases.
Marburg hemorrhagic fever was recognized in 1967, when outbreaks occurred in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany, and in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. Cases were traced to African green monkeys imported for research and polio vaccine production. Nine years later, a closely related virus was found to have sparked a deadly outbreak near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as Zaire.
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