Ebola tattoo

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Wow. Reader Brandon Elkins recently became the proud owner of an amazing tattoo, based on a scanning electron microscope image of the Ebola virus—specifically the Zaire virus (aka ZEBOV), which was the first species of Ebola to be identified and is still the most deadly. Outbreaks of ZEBOV have recorded fatality rates as high as 90%, so I really shouldn't be surprised that it makes for such a hardcore-lookin' tattoo. But, yeah. Turns out, ZEBOV is more metal than I would have guessed.