Doctor Dadin Bonkole works at the Ingende Hospital's Ebola Red Zone. They called it "Ebola," after the river close to the outbreak in the country that was then known as Zaire. New viruses on the riseSince the first animal-to-human infection, yellow fever, was identified in 1901, scientists have found at least another 200 viruses known to cause disease in humans. As that happens, animals and the viruses they carry will collide with people in new and often disastrous ways. The H5N1 influenza virus, known as the avian flu, and SARS both emerged from them.

Source: CNN December 22, 2020 07:26 UTC