Ebola is the common term for a virus which first hits humans. At the beginning the virus was transmitted by contacts between humans and apes dead bodies.
Nevertheless for ten years researchers found several cases in Great apes.
Indeed the result of this case study was more than a half of great apes population decimated.
For example in Gabon, country which provides shelter for 80% of gorilla's population, almost 90% of nests disappeared since 1983.
In fact most of cases are detected on the edge of urbans areas , where forest can be reached by humans and consequently where roads can be built.
Today Ebola is an extensive threat for apes survival, on equal footing with poaching or deforestation.
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