More About Bats and Ebola…
A great article was recently published in the scientific literature called “Mapping the zoonotic niche of Ebola virus disease in Africa” by David Pigott and others. This study used fancy mapping technology called geographic information systems (GIS), to map the concentration of the three species of bats known carry Ebola (check out our earlier post about bats). The bat map is combined with a map of human populations to show the places of greatest risk. The top part of the map shows the number of people at risk. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has the most, with 11.7 million people. The grey box… Read More »More About Bats and Ebola…