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This bat species may be the source of the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa | Science | AAAS
Wildlife Conservation Society - You may remember the hammer-headed bat, the largest fruit bat in Africa. WCS scientists are studying it as a suspected reservoir of the Ebola virus. They recently published
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