Satellitter vil gi ledetråder for løsning av gåten om Ebola   Workers wearing protective clothing bury the corpse of a five-year-old boy who died earlier in the day, Friday Dec. 28, 2001 in Mekambo, Gabon. Adamou, who only had one name, was the fifth member of his family to catch the highly contagious Ebola virus in the remote, northeastern town of Mekambo, near the border with Republic of Congo. His mother, a nurse, died after treating an Ebola patient. The disease then spread to her mother, brother and another child.   Map of Africa showing the countries infected by Ebola haemorrhagic fever. Ebola makes its home in dense tropical forest within an as yet unidentified host organism. From 2004 ESA will be supplying satellite data to assist medical researchers seeking to discover the mysterious source of the virus.   Extract of a radar image centred on a cliff which works as a geographical barrier between two regions in the studied area : on the left, outbreaks have been registered, on the right, none have taken place. Satellite data being supplied to CIRMF researchers may help highlight patterns in the way Ebola strikes to help discover the mysterious host organism of the virus.   This CIRMF map illustrates the first source locations of Ebola virus outbreaks since 1994 along north eastern Gabon and the west basin of the Republic of Congo. Release date: 22 Desember 2003