WHO: Ebola disease - Transmission
April 24, 2025
Source: WHO
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Transmission
It is thought that fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are natural hosts of the Orthoebolavirus. The virus can get into the human population when people have close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals such as fruit bats, chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys, forest antelope or porcupines found ill or dead or in the rainforest.
People can get infected with the virus from another person by direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with:
the blood or body fluids of a person who is sick with or has died from Ebola disease; and
objects or surfaces that have been contaminated with body fluids (like blood, feces, vomit) from a person sick with the disease or who has died from the disease.
People cannot transmit the disease before they have symptoms, and they remain infectious as long as their blood contains the virus.
Health and care workers have frequently been infected while treating patients with Ebola disease. This occurs through close contact with patients when infection control precautions are not strictly practiced.
Burial ceremonies that involve direct contact with the body of a person who has died can also contribute to the transmission of Ebola disease.
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