Tracing the routes from reservoir to humans is tricky. Even now, scientists don’t know all the pathways Ebola can take from bats to humans. One known mode of transmission is eating an infected ...

These results suggest that Rousettus fruit bats are a reservoir for Ebola, or a new Ebola-like virus in South Asia. The study extends the range of this lethal disease further than previously ...

Ebola experts suspect that fruit bats are the primary reservoir for the disease. ... “The reservoir [animal] is in DRC, Gabon and the Republic of [the] Congo,” he says.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever is considered a classic zoonotic disease with the persistence of the Ebola virus in a reservoir species. Image Credit: Valeniker / Shutterstock.com The exact source of ...

Studies are underway in the Tai Forest to search for the reservoir. Shedding some light on the issue are findings from a lab in South Africa where local animals were inoculated with the Ebola virus.

The natural reservoir of Ebola appears to be the fruit bat. Researchers found evidence that three species of captured fruit bats showed evidence of symptomless infection – that is the bats had ...

This Ebola outbreak—the 25 th known outbreak since 1976—has already killed more than all of the previous outbreaks combined. At some point, this outbreak will ebb and Ebola will fade from the ...

In order to stop Ebola in the future, scientists need to find out where exactly it is hiding and when it will be back. Pictured, a Doctors Without Borders health worker in Liberia carries a child ...

Ebola's animal reservoir, fruit bats, could spread the disease through the dense forest that spans 22 countries, the study predicts. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

Congo’s dense tropical forests are a natural reservoir for the Ebola virus, which causes fever, body aches, and diarrhoea. The country has recorded 14 outbreaks since 1976.

Scientists don't know the natural reservoir of Ebola, but they suspect the first person infected in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat.