Commission de Lutte contre les Epidémies à Kikwit. Transmission of Ebola hemorrhagic fever: a study of risk factors in family members, Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995. Human-to-human transmission occurs via direct contact with body fluids from infected patients or objects contaminated with infected body fluids. : Ebolavirus ecology showing enzootic and epizootic cycles Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The local practice of eating bush meat or food contaminated with bat feces (3 species of tree-roosting bats have been implicated as a reservoir) is also thought to contribute. 2014 Sep 8 3:e04395.Īnimal-to-human transmission may occur during hunting and consumption of the reservoir species or infected nonhuman primates. Mapping the zoonotic niche of Ebola virus disease in Africa. Field investigations of an outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995: arthropod studies. Experimental inoculation of plants and animals with Ebola virus. Laboratory testing of reservoir competence shows that successful infection is possible in bats and rodents, but not in plants or arthropods. An introduction to Ebola: the virus and the disease. The virus is thought to be initially acquired from exposure to body fluids or tissue from infected animals such as bats and nonhuman primates however, the natural reservoir and mode of transmission to humans has not been confirmed. : Transmission electron micrograph showing some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These viruses are elongated, filamentous structures of variable length. The Ebola virus is a member of the Filoviridae family (genus Ebolavirus order: Mononegavirales).
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