EBOLA is wiping out Africa’s great apes. The virus has killed a third of the world’s gorillas in the past decade, and tens of thousands of chimps. Now the disease, which can have a mortality rate of more than 90 per cent, is working its way through the densest population of apes in the world – in Odzala National Park in the Republic of the Congo.
Because of the way researchers believed Ebola was spread there seemed little anyone could do. But it now appears that the calculations were wrong, and the apes could be saved with an existing vaccine.
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