Cause of Ebola outbreak was 'a young boy playing near colony of infected bats', scientists say

Scientists revealed today that the cause of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EDV) that hit West Africa this year was a 2 year old boy, known as Patient Zero, who played on a tree near a colony of virus-infested bats in his village in Meliandou, Guinea. Zero was the first person to die. But before his death, he infected other family members, who in turn spread it to others, which eventually spread into other areas in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal, before moving to the US, UK, Spain and even today, Scotland confirmed its first Ebola case.

According to WHO, this Ebola outbreak is by far the largest ever-recorded outbreak and it has killed about 7,800 people by Dec. 17, 2014.