Two Tufts alumni contributed to research providing a critical clue into the mysterious cause of the deadliest Ebola outbreak in historyThe outbreak of Ebola that started in 2013 in West Africa,infecting nearly 30000 people and killing 11000 before it ended in 2016, has long left scientists puzzling over a key question: where did the virus originate?
Now a consortium of scientists has found the Zaire strain of Ebola—one of six known types of the virus—in a cave-dwelling West African bat species, or shedding light on the outbreak’s possible origins.
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