Local Band Identified as Source of Ebola

Courtesy of the addictive BoingBoing, Seattlest has recently learned that researchers in Gabon and Congo believe they have identified the original source and carriers of ebola, narrowing the field to 3 different species of fruit bats. Along with isolating minute genetic traces of the ebola virus in these fruit bats, researchers found that the virus led to no symptoms in the bats when directly administered, thereby leaving them free to carry and spread the virus.

Many central Africans apparently eat fruit bats, leading Dr. Sanford Kuvin, head of tropical infectious diseases at Israel's Hebrew University, to suggest that they "avoid contact with the creatures at all costs."

Relocated Seattle indie band Fruit Bats (formerly from Chicago...or is that Congo?), whose most recent release is named the now clearly ironic "Mouthfuls", could not be reached for comment.