The spin machine is once again running hot - "Deadly Ebola Virus Is Found in Liberian Bat, Researchers Say": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/health/ebola-bat-liberia-epidemic.html …
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@nytimes article states "Scientists have long suspected that bats were a natural host of Ebola and a source of some human infections, but until now they had not found any bats that harbored the epidemic species". This is wrong - EBOV was sequenced (fragments) in bats in 20051 antwoord 1 retweet 7 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
Here's the link to that original Nature article sequencing PCR fragments of Ebola virus sequences obtained in multiple bat specimens:https://www.nature.com/articles/438575a …
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Here's the press release from @EcoHealthNYC - well crafted and measured. I agree with them that discovering EBOV in a bat in West Africa is interesting - only, I could do without the hype (which isn't too bad in this release!).
https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2019/01/ecohealth-alliance-scientists-discover-the-deadly-zaire-ebola-virus-in-west-african-bat …
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