Ebola Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Domestic animals=== In 2012, it was demonstrated that the virus can travel without contact from pigs to nonhuman primates, although the same study failed to achieve transmission in that manner between primates.<ref name="Weingartl_2013" /><ref name="Weingartl2012">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Weingartl HM, Embury-Hyatt C, Nfon C, Leung A, Smith G, Kobinger G |date=November 2012 |title=Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates |journal=Sci Rep |volume=2 |page=811 |bibcode=2012NatSR...2E.811W |doi=10.1038/srep00811 |pmc=3498927 |pmid=23155478}}</ref> Dogs may become infected with EBOV but not develop symptoms. Dogs in some parts of Africa [[scavenge]] for food, and they sometimes eat EBOV-infected animals and also the corpses of humans. A 2005 survey of dogs during an EBOV outbreak found that although they remain asymptomatic, about 32 percent of dogs closest to an outbreak showed a [[seroprevalence]] for EBOV versus nine percent of those farther away.<ref name="pmid15757552">{{Cite journal |display-authors=6 |vauthors=Allela L, Boury O, Pouillot R, Délicat A, Yaba P, Kumulungui B, Rouquet P, Gonzalez JP, Leroy EM |date=March 2005 |title=Ebola virus antibody prevalence in dogs and human risk |journal=Emerg. Infect. Dis. |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=385–390 |doi=10.3201/eid1103.040981 |pmc=3298261 |pmid=15757552}}</ref> The authors concluded that there were "potential implications for preventing and controlling human outbreaks." Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page