Note: This post is part of ongoing work and will be included in a forthcoming publication about the evolutionary processes of Ebola virus in reservoir hosts. We discuss this here because we believe it may be relevant to understanding the zoonotic source of the recently announced Ebola virus outbreak in Kasai Province of DRC. At the start of the West African Ebola virus epidemic in 2014, when the first Guinea genomes were released [1], it was noticed that the new outbreak was relatively diverg...
