• Question: how did ebola start

    Asked by aimeeandamy to Rob on 19 Nov 2014.
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      Rob Appleyard answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      I think the current idea is that the disease originated in fruit bats, which bit humans and transferred the virus. From there it can spread from human to human, which is how an outbreak spreads.

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