Dr. Steven Novella

It's too small.

It does seem artifactual.

But it would be very interesting if they followed up with more and different researchers, people, and see if it's consistent.

So yeah, before we speculate too much on why this is, we have to prove that it is an actual phenomenon.

And we're not there yet with this one study.

All right.

It would be interesting to see if there's any follow-up study on this.

This is, again, one of those ones we have to keep on our radar, either positive or negative.

I'd be very interested to see if this replicates.

But until it does, it's hard to take it too seriously.

Okay, guys, have you heard about the latest Ebola outbreak?

Yes, I did.

I guess if you're reading science news regularly.

Definitely if you're reading science news.

Mainstream news, it's not front page.

Right.

It is enough that we should be like, okay, let's see what's going on here.

But there's really two stories here.

The first story is about the outbreak itself, which is happening in the DRC, the Democratic Republic of Congo, also in Uganda.

It is a species of Ebola, the Bundibugio species, which is a rarer one.