(Source: Scientific American)GORILLAS and many chimpanzees in the Republic of Congo have recently been targeted by the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus, which kills 80 percent of its victims. In parts of the Republic of Congo in equatorial Africa, nearly all the gorillas are gone. Since 2001 gorilla and chimpanzee remains have showed up near and in the Lossi Sanctuary, close to the Gabon border. Just what was killing these great apes was unclear. Now researchers finger the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus as the culprit.
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