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Fruit bats may be Ebola reservoir
Email: Melissa Lee Phillips - mlp@nasw.org News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20051201-01
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Three species of fruit bats may be the long-sought reservoirs of Ebola virus in Africa, according to a report in this week's Nature. Researchers have found antibodies specific to Ebola as well as viral RNA sequences in symptom-less bats, which they collected in central Africa during Ebola outbreaks in humans and other great apes.
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