Scientists fear new Ebola outbreak may explain sudden gorilla disappearance
...he journal Nature last year suggested that when an ebola outbreak affects a given area, more than 80 percent of all great apes living in that area die of the disease. Ebola outbreaks have already occurred in this general area. In the past two years, two reported cases were confirmed in Lossi Forest, appro...... therefore be a potential therapeutic approach for ebola treatment. Thomas W Geisbert from the US Army Medi...nd colleagues injected 12 rhesus macaques with the ebola virus to induce the deadly ebola haemorragic fever. Nine of the macaques received an inhibitor of th...