In a July article from the LA Times it was reported that workers from Doctors without Borders were denied entry into a southern Guinea village where hostility toward them existed. A lot of those villagers felt that those volunteers and Red Cross workers were the ones spreading the virus.
Their sentiments are in direct contrast to the perception by some that Ebola comes from African people barbaric culture, specifically their consumption of Bushmeat. When you eat Bushmeat, it means that you kill and eat wild animals; this includes apes bats and rats. It was reported that “Child Zero’s family hunted and ate bats. These bats are believed to be the carrier of the virus and presumably the primary source for the current outbreak.
However when researchers monitored populations of bats they found a low detectable trace of the virus. The direct contact of a human getting Ebola directly from a bat has only been reported 30 times since 1976. When a study was done in Ghana, a country that sells over 100,000 bats a year, to see if any one of those sales lead to Ebola; not one was found.