Insect-eating bats that inhabited a hollow tree in a remote village in Guinea may have been the source of the world's biggest Ebola epidemic, scientists said on Tuesday. More than 20,000 cases of ...

The first patient to become infected with Ebola may have gotten it while playing in a hollowed-out tree that housed infected bats. Two-year-old Emile Ouamouno of Guinea got sick a year ago and died… ...

Researchers say the 2-year-old boy believed to have triggered the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa was likely infected by playing in a bat tree.

The bats often nest in “colonies” or extended families, making each roosting tree that much more important. “We counted 79 come out of one tree,” said Morgan Swingen, an NRRI research ...