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What is the Ebola virus, and can it be stopped?

Published 10 Apr 2019, 12:37 BST
A bat suspected of being a carrier of the Ebola virus is prepared for a blood ...
A bat suspected of being a carrier of the Ebola virus is prepared for a blood sample extraction in Bouake, Ivory Coast, in 2014.
Photograph by Pete Muller
Two doctors perform necropsies on bats at a makeshift laboratory.
Photograph by Pete Muller
A large colony of fruit bats takes flight out of the trees where they live in the village of Attienkru, outside Bouake, Ivory Coast. There's evidence that fruit bats may play a role in spreading the Ebola virus to other animals, who in turn spread it to humans.
Photograph by Pete Muller
Medical staff at the Hastings Ebola Treatment Centre in Sierra Leone escort a man in the throes of an Ebola-induced delirium back to the isolation ward from which he escaped.
Photograph by Pete Muller
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