Ebola has killed third of world’s gorillas, chimpanzees

[Ichingcarpenter]

The current Ebola crisis has taken a terrific toll in West Africa, stressing budgets, stretching fragile health systems to the breaking point and leaving more than 8,600 people dead since it returned to the region early last year. But seldom noted is the toll Ebola has taken on some of the world’s most endangered creatures the great apes



http://america.aljazeera.com/blogs/scrutineer/2015/1/22/ebola-kills-third-of-apes-chimpanzees.html?utm_content=bylines&utm_campaign=ajam&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

[Nihil]

1. Shame that it didn't do the same to humans.

The chimps & gorillas might have had a better chance at surviving had that been the case.