Leroy and his colleagues found evidence of Ebola virus in samples from some patients, and they deduced that the butchered chimpanzee had been infected with Ebola. “The chimpanzee seems to have been the index case for infecting 18 primary human cases,” they wrote. Their investigation also turned up the fact that the chimp hadn’t been killed by village hunters; it had been found dead in the forest and scavenged.
Never eat underooked chimpanzee.
