Bats and Ebola: studying fruit bats to prevent future outbreaks
Sarah Olson is a researcher for the Wildlife Conservation Society and joins us at a moment when Ebola virus is\xa0very much in the news due\xa0to a recent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A primatologist, Olson has lately been studying hammer-headed fruit bats\xa0to understand how Ebola is transmitted to apes and also humans \u2014 research which could potentially control or prevent future outbreaks of the deadly disease \u2014\xa0beside revealing new details on the behavior of this fascinating species. Plus we round up recent top news.
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