Passage4 Passage 4 Ebola Kills More Than Humans By VOA 18 August,2014 The Ebola virus has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa.But it also threatens wildlife,like the severely endangered western lowland gorilla.VOA's Steve Baragona reports that the spread of Ebola shows how animal diseases spill over the barrier between animals and humans to infect people What killed the chimpanzee? One day in 1996,boys from a village in northern Gabon found a dead chimpanzee in the forest.They took it home,and the villagers prepared the animal for food.The World Health Organization says this started an Ebola outbreak that killed 21 people. Years later,writer David Quammen made a reporting trip to Gabon.He met two men from that village who were there during the Ebola outbreak. They said their families were not the only ones affected 1/5Passage 4 1 / 5 Passage 4 Ebola Kills More Than Humans By VOA 18 August, 2014 The Ebola virus has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa. But it also threatens wildlife, like the severely endangered western lowland gorilla. VOA's Steve Baragona reports that the spread of Ebola shows how animal diseases spill over the barrier between animals and humans to infect people. What killed the chimpanzee? One day in 1996, boys from a village in northern Gabon found a dead chimpanzee in the forest. They took it home, and the villagers prepared the animal for food. The World Health Organization says this started an Ebola outbreak that killed 21 people. Years later, writer David Quammen made a reporting trip to Gabon. He met two men from that village who were there during the Ebola outbreak. They said their families were not the only ones affected