Bats may have triggered ebola outbreak

1. Bats may have
triggered Ebola
outbreak
Toddler Infected By Creatures While Playing
Inside A Hollow Tree In Guinea Likely 1st Case
Of Disease
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The toddler in Guinea who is thought to
have been the first case in the current
outbreak of Ebola in West Africa may have
caught the virus from bats in a hollow tree
near his village, scientists said on Tuesday.
A study, led by scientists from the Robert
Koch Institute in Berlin and published
online by the journal EMBO Molecular
Medicine, could not prove the link because
the tree in Meliandou, a village of 31
houses in the Guéckédou district, caught
fire in late March causing a “rain of bats” to
pour out of the free. The bats were
destroyed or gone before the researchers
arrived in mid-April — a bad break for the
researchers, lead author Fabian Leendertz
said. The fire took place shortly after
Guineans were warned that the virus might
come from bats. By then, at least 10 local
people were dead.
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However, the scientists found enough residual
DNA in the charred trunk and fecal DNA in
nearby soil to identify the animals as Mops
condylurus, longtailed insect-eating bats that
were previously suspected in an outbreak of the
Sudan strain of Ebola virus, which is related to
the Zaire strain that has infected over 20,000
West Africans.
The study is important because scientists have
wondered how a boy named Emile Ouamouno,
who died in December 2013 and whom various
reports describe as one or two years old, could
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Most human outbreaks have started in adults:
hunters or charcoal-burners finding sick apes or
forest antelopes and butchering them for food, for
example, or miners working in bat-filled caves. In
one case, an outbreak is thought to have come from
bats roosting in a cotton mill. But there was no
large number of deaths among chimpanzees or
other animals in Me liandou, the scientists said.
Large fruit bats have been suspected because they
are hunted for meat in Guinea, where a peppery
bat soup was popular before the outbreak. Brought to you by

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Some scientists think that humans
can contract Ebola by picking up fruit
that fruit bats have contaminated
with saliva or faeces. But there are
no fruit bat colonies near Meliandou,
the study said.
Villagers said children, including
Emile, often caught and played with
bats in the tree, which was about 50
yards from Emile’s house and near a
path women used to fetch water.
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