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11:08 p
Friday, January 25, 2019
Monrovia (DPA)
The Ebola virus has been found in one of the country's bats, researchers said and the Liberian Ministry of Health.
After examining hundreds of bats in the last two weeks, scientists from the Ministry of Health and the National Institute of Public Health of Liberia have discovered the virus in one of those bald ones -Souris, said the institute's general director, Tolbert Nisenwa, Thursday at the capital Monrovia.
"Until now, tests on all other bats have been negative."
"However, the results are important," he said, adding that researchers thought bats could be a natural incubator for the Ebola virus.
He added that researchers believe that bats from other parts of Africa are also carriers of the Ebola virus.
"Current studies will examine whether more bats are infected and how they are transmitted to the virus," he said.
Ebola, a highly contagious disease that causes fever, often leads to severe internal bleeding and death.
During the recent Ebola outbreak in 2014, 11,000 people died when the virus spread through the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to West Africa. .
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