Ebola between humans and animals

When the fruit bats are particularly abundant, as in Abidjan, and they are a very popular game, this animal is a serious source of infection.

Transmission can occur in people who handled primates infected, dead or alive: the case of monkeys, Cercopithecus probably the kind sold as bushmeat markets in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Laboratory non-human primates were infected following exposure to aerosolized virus particles from pigs, but airborne transmission has not been demonstrated between non-human primates. Pigs excreted virus in their nasopharyngeal secretions and feces after inoculation expérimentale49.