• Question: Do eating bats give ou ebola

    Asked by deed490emu on 18 Jul 2023.
    • Photo: Clare Morrow

      Clare Morrow answered on 18 Jul 2023:

      Sorry – i have no idea

    • Photo: Bruno Silvester Lopes

      Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 18 Jul 2023:

      Ebola virus has not been isolated from bats so No

    • Photo: Hannah Scholes

      Hannah Scholes answered on 20 Jul 2023:

      Sorry, I don’t know that one. It looks as if Bruno does, though 😁

    • Photo: Kip Heath

      Kip Heath answered on 20 Jul 2023:

      Potentially. The 2015 outbreak was first recorded in a family that caught bats and sold them for food. The first patient was a 2 year old who had been playing with a bat outside. When I worked there the advice was to avoid bats where possible.

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