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Which animals have experienced recorded Ebola outbreaks?
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Ebola
Numerous filamentous ebolavirus particles (blue) budding from a chronically-infected VERO E6 cell (yellow-green) in this digitally colorized scanning electron micrograph produced by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Recorded outbreaks of Ebola have been documented in several animal species, most notably in primates, including gorillas and chimpanzees. Additionally, outbreaks have been recorded in domestic pigs.1
While fruit bats are widely considered to be the suspected wild reservoir for ebolaviruses, and the virus has been detected in various bat species (such as the little free-tailed bat and Angolan free-tailed bat), these findings generally relate to the presence of the virus rather than recorded disease outbreaks in those populations. Furthermore, laboratory macaques have been identified as hosts for the Reston ebolavirus in several instances involving imported animals.234