According to some of the reports that I have been reading, the area of Africa where ebola has broken out was widely vaccinated for meningitis, and accidentally used a live vaccine. They are not verifying that each suspected case of ebola is not meningitis, which has about the same symptoms as ebola does.
Many of what are considered ebola-caused deaths may actually be from the meningitus virus that is now being transmitted heavily in those infected areas.
Dogs CAN catch meningitus, so it is possible that if the ebola victim in Spain actually had meningitus, then Excalibur would likely have died from that anyway.
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