BBC: For most, the mere mention of Ebola virus provokes abject fear – the archetypal blockbuster contagion – but just how dangerous is it to our ape cousins?
A recent report highlighting possible Ebola virus infection in Indonesian orangutan populations provides a timely reminder of the threat to animal and human health that emerging virus infections pose.
Ebola virus was first described in the 1970s as the cause of deadly outbreaks of haemorrhagic fever in humans in the Democratic Republic of Congo…

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