Insect-eating bats implicated as Ebola outbreak source

Tree in Guinea harbored suspects in infection of first victim

A hollow tree

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

The epicenter of the Ebola epidemic may be a hollow tree in Guinea.