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Scientists may have located the long-sought natural reservoir of the deadly Ebola virus. After combing through 1,000 Species, a team working in Gabon and the Republic of Congo isolated the virus in three Species of fruit bats, which are eaten by people in Central Africa. Genetic traces turned up in 22.6 percent of the bats tested, but the virus produced no symptoms in the infected bats, presumably allowing them to spread the disease efficiently. Ebola's cycles of emergence and disappearance have intrigued infectious disease specialists. The new study does not nail down the bats as Ebola's prime nesting spot between outbreaks—certainty would require scientists to plot all points on The Natural cycle of the disease—but it does paint the bats as the best candidate yet.

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