David Axe has an excellent piece on the Wired blog Danger Room, summarizing reporting on recent Ebola and Marburg outbreaks in Congo  and Uganda, respectively. The Ebola is not only affecting humans – it’s hitting the gorilla population, already endangered. At the risk of starting an animal-rights discussion, or worse, one about evolution – one imagines that gorillas are sufficiently sentient to experience pain qua pain – and grief qua

grief.

Link here.  I’m certain that I’ll do damage to this piece in summarizing it; what’s more, like all of Axe’s work, it’s well-written and concise.