This discussion of Ebola is simply degenerating into the the usual prejudices about Africa and African people, masquerading as informed speculating and I'm find

This discussion of Ebola is simply degenerating into the the usual prejudices about Africa and African people, masquerading as informed speculating and I'm finding it very irritating.. I want to ask a few questions here: 1. Is there any recorded instance of the particular strain of Ebola in West Africa being transmitted from a bat or another forest animal to a human being? 2. Has that that strain of Ebola virus been found in any bats or other animals in the infected areas? 3. Is there some hard knowledge about the migratory patterns of bats or some other forest creatures to indicate that they have been able to carry the virus all the way from Central Africa to the far end of West Africa without infecting any other people of animals in between? Why don't people check these facts before they start blaming everything on African backwardness, cultural practices and beliefs? Instead all we have is innuendo from so called experts maligning Africans and ignoring the most likely fact. This Ebola outbreak was most likely transmitted by humans of which there are two kinds. 1. People who got infected with the disease or harboured a strain of it from Central Africa, travelled to West Africa and infected someone people there. But it doesn't explain how those people did not infect any locals or trigger an outbreak at the source before leaving for West Africa. 2. Researchers who have access to the virus and through carelessness or otherwise managed to infect West Africans with it, said researchers being mainly Westerners working for state institutions, universities or corporations with access to the virus. Unless there is hard evidence explaining how some animals infect with Ebola travelled over a 1000 miles without infecting whole areas in between whether animals or humans, the search for its origin must focus on the most likely cause, and that means human beings. If some angry West Africans are attacking western medical personnel in the belief that they are the source of the Ebola virus, they are quite logical in doing so, as Western medical personnel and researchers are the visible common link between the presence of Ebola in Central Africa and West Africa. This comment may not be focused on how the outbreak may be contained, but it needs to get out there.