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/ 21 December 2004

‘Ebola came and killed the gorillas’

Residents of the village of Lengue-Lengue in northern Congo are waiting for the day gorillas will return to the Lossi wildlife sanctuary after being wiped out by the deadly Ebola fever. Ebola, an incurable haemorrhagic fever, has in three years wiped out 80% of Central Africa’s lowland gorillas living in the 320-square-kilometre sanctuary.