Ebola outbreak spirals out of control: how might it have started? Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the region near the latest epidemic. By Mohana Basu

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01645-y The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) might have caught most people by surprise, but not James Baguma. He has studied the interactions between wildlife and people in Uganda’s Bundibugyo district, where the species of Ebola virus behind the current outbreak was first identified some two decades ago.