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Ebola's Roots Are 50 Times Older Than Mankind. And That Could Be the Key to Stopping It.

VIRUS FOSSILS

By studying hair from a wallaby, scientists in Buffalo confirmed the filovirus family that gave rise Ebola to is tens of millions of years old. How the finding may show us how to defend against them.

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