By Marc Lallanilla, Assistant Editor | March 26, 2014 04:23pm ET
An outbreak of the Ebola virus has claimed at least 63 lives in the African nation of Guinea.
To combat the spread of this deadly disease, Guinean officials have taken the unusual step of banning the consumption of bat soup, grilled bat and other local delicacies.
"We discovered the vector [infectious] agent of the Ebola virus is the bat," Remy Lamah, the country’s health minister, told Bloomberg News. "We sent messages everywhere to announce the ban. People must even avoid consumption of rats and monkeys. They are very dangerous animals."
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