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Ebola Outbreak Traces Back To Bats

Flickr user Gábor Kovács / "bat" (CC BY 2.0)

The Ebola victim who triggered the current outbreak - a two-year-old boy from Guinea - may have been infected by playing in a hollow tree infested with bats. 

That’s according to findings published in EMBO Molecular Medicine.

Scientists made the connection after taking samples and conferring with locals.