• Question: When did ebola start and how?

    Asked by 257tund47 to Gemma on 11 Nov 2015.
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      Gemma Cripps answered on 11 Nov 2015:

      Hi 257tund47

      The ebola virus was first discovered in 1976, but it could have been around for a lot longer than this and we just didn’t know about it. It is thought that ebola originally started in fruit bats (which host the virus) and was passed to humans.

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