Insect-eating bats implicated as Ebola outbreak source
Tree in Guinea harbored suspects in infection of first victim
![A hollow tree](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ts_DSC_0093.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
GROUND ZERO This hollow tree once housed insect-eating bats that may have been the source of the Ebola epidemic. The first person to contract Ebola in the outbreak was a toddler who often played in the tree.
Fabian Leendertz