Swanepoel 1996 Leendertz 2015 Assessing the Evidence Supporting Fruit Bats as the Primary Reservoirs for Ebola Viruses "Although evidence suggests EBOV ecology involves fruit bats, the case for sustained circulation remains largely unconfirmed and epidemiological links between fruit bats and human index-cases is sparse."

Olival 2014 Filoviruses in Bats: Current Knowledge and Future Directions "To test some of these hypotheses, a wide range of hosts were infected with ebolavirus experimentally in 1996, and bats stood out because they got infected, replicated virus, and survived infection [18]. Finally, in 2005 Leroy et al. managed to detect anti-Ebolavirus antibodies and Ebolavirus RNA in three fruit bat species"