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It is most likely that fruit bats are the natural reservoirs of ebola virus (EBOV) and infected non-human primates like monkeys. Eating non-human primates, and even bats, as bushmeat which is contaminated with the virus can prove to be very lethal for the victim.

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It is not known what animal actually carries the virus. Though the virus has been found in monkeys, to say that a monkey carries the virus would be the same as saying humans carry the virus. Seeing that the survival rate of a human infected with Ebola Zaire is around 10%, one would not imagine a human being a good "carrier".

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Fruit bats were probably the animals that gave Ebola to humans.
In the small village of Meliandou, in Guinea, stood a tall, hollowed-out tree where children loved to play. But thousands of bats lived in the tree, and one toddler, a 2-year-old named Emile Ouamouno, may have contracted Ebola from playing there.
He died of Ebola and is considered patient zero (the first).

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None. Ebola is caused by a virus that is transmitted by contact with bodily fluids rather than an insect vector.

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