While the results contain no direct evidence of bats infected with Ebola near Meliandou (the confirmed epicenter of the Ebola outbreak), Leendertz suggested that the toddler could have picked up the ...

The Ebola virus binded poorly to straw-colored fruit bats' NPC1 receptor. "That really struck me," said Anthony, who helped discover the sixth known ebolavirus strain, Bombali virus.

Many viruses have been linked to bats, as they are known disease carriers. The Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, and Hendra viruses originated from bats. So did coronaviruses like SARS-1 and MERS.

“This includes viruses in the paramyxovirus family, such as Hendra and Nipah virus, lyssaviruses like rabies, filoviruses, which includes Ebola and Marburg, and then of course, coronaviruses.” There ...

If Ebola virus was in his body, where did it come from? Under SuspicionStraw-colored fruit bats swarm in an Ivory Coast village. Fruit bats, some of which have been suspected of carrying Ebola ...

Then, with a cry of “Here we go,” he hurled rocks onto the corrugated-tin roof and against metal shutters, sending a dozen panicked bats, some of them possibly infected with Ebola, toward the ...

Nobody knew it yet, but the world’s worst Ebola outbreak had just begun. It’s impossible to prove that the kola tree was the source of the epidemic. Scientists are fairly sure that bats are th ...

The Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in Africa, one in the Sudan and the other in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Believed to be transported by fruit bats ...