Ebola virus disease (formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever) is a severe, often fatal illness, with a death rate of up to 90%. The illness affects humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees).
Ebola first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks, one in a village near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the other in a remote area of Sudan.
Experts
don’t know for sure the origins of the disease, but they think that
fruit bats are probably the natural hosts for the virus. Monkeys and gorillas have also been known to infect humans, but fruit bats (Pteropodidae) are considered the likely host of the Ebola virus, based on available evidence.
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