Sentences with phrase «infected fruit bat»

Not exact matches

For one thing, Meliandou is not located near fruit bat roosting sites where the child might have come in contact with an infected animal or tainted fruit, and there is no evidence that the family ate fruit bats.

For example, wild fruit bats are suspected * to be the reservoir where the Ebola virus waits for a chance to infect people.

He suggests that pigs picked up the virus by eating fruit from nearby trees that had been munched on by infected bats.