Cuvette-Ouest has been the site of several outbreaks of the Ebola virus.
The hammer-headed bat is one of three species of African fruit bat claimed to be asymptomatically infected with the Ebola virus.
Apparently, a strange highly contagious form of the Ebola virus wiped out most of the human race.
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In the Japanese film "L: Change the World", Midkine is used as a major plot element, as it is used in a vaccine to treat the ebola virus combined with influenza, from spreading.
It works by inhibiting the protein TSG101 which is required by many viruses to replicate and reinfect other cells, and has been shown to protect mice from the Ebola virus.
Studying about the matrix protein VP40 is important since the Ebola virus has been considered a Category A Bioterrorism agent.