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Tracing the Origin of the Ebola Virus
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9
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2015
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The Montreal Gazette:
The severe Ebola outbreak that ravaged West Africa started with a two-year-old boy from a small village in Guinea, who was likely infected by playing in the hollow of a tree housing a colony of bats.
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