Ebola outbreak spirals out of control: how might it have started?

A researcher retrieves bats from a net inside a cave in central Africa. Credit: Steeve Jordan/AFP via Getty The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) might have caught most people by surprise, but not James Baguma. He has studied the interactions between wildlife and people in Uganda’s Bundibugyo district, where the species of Ebola virus behind the current outbreak was first identified some two decades ago. …