African doctors believe that ebola virus originated in African caves

The world’s attention is being draw to the outbreak of the ebola virus in West Africa.

By a strange coincidence I was a patient in the Nairobi Hospital in Kenya in 1976 when the first victim of the African outbreak was admitted. The consultant who was caring for me was the doctor who identified the virus as ebola. So far, at least, I have not seen anything that would disprove my doctor’s explanation that the African version (the most deadly type) came from the famous “elephant caves” on Mount Elgon, situated in northern Kenya and bordering on Uganda.

The Nairobi doctor who treated the first victim learned from him that he had been visiting the caves. Within a few weeks, a teenager arrived with similar symptoms, and his case-history revealed that he too had been visiting the Elgon caves.