Ebola is Wiping Out West Africa's Apes - Ken Cameron

The recent West African Ebola outbreak killed approximately 10,000 people, but it killed five to ten times that number of non-human apes. Ken Cameron, a Wildlife Conservation Society field veterinarian based in Congo, says that the virus that doctors and government have scrambled to contain has been running rampant in the region's forests, killing half of the apes in one national park, and bringing the western lowland gorilla to the brink of extinction. Cameron and his team have been looking for areas where bats, long considered to be an Ebola reservoir between outbreaks, apes and hogs all overlap. He says that certain fruit trees have multiple species feeding at them, which could be way to transmit the disease between species.