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    • Socializing helped Ebola wipe out gorillas

      Posted by Billbar from Reuters

      A 2004 outbreak of the virus, which also kills people, killed 97 percent of gorillas who lived in groups and 77 percent of solitary males, Damien Caillaud and colleagues from the University of Montpellier and the University of Rennes in France reported. Overall, it wiped out 95 percent of the gorilla population within a year, they reported in the journal Current Biology. The study shows that the deadly virus spreads directly from gorilla to gorilla and does not necessarily depend on a still-unidentified third species of animal, perhaps a bat, that can transmit the virus without getting ill from it.

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