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Transmission. Print. Scientists think people are initially infected with an ebolavirus through contact with an infected animal, such as a fruit bat or nonhuman primate. This is called a spillover event. After that, the virus spreads from person to person, potentially affecting many people.
Ebola is introduced into the human population through 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.
Ebola is spread through direct contact with body fluids ― blood, saliva, sweat, tears, mucus, vomit, feces, breast milk, urine and semen ― of people infected with it. It is also spread by touching things that have been contaminated with these fluids.
The Ebola virus is transmitted among humans through close and direct physical contact with infected bodily fluids, the most infectious being blood, faeces and vomit. The Ebola virus has also been detected in breast milk, urine and semen.
Ebola is a type of viral hemorrhagic fever caused by several species of viruses from the genus Ebolavirus. Symptoms of Ebola start out flu-like but can progress to severe vomiting, bleeding and neurological (brain and nerve) issues. Ebola can spread to people from bats, nonhuman primates and antelope.
How do people become infected with the Ebola virus? People become infected with Ebola either through contact with infected animals (usually following butchering, cooking or eating) or through contact with the bodily fluids of infected humans.
Ebola, contagious disease caused by a virus of the family Filoviridae that is responsible for a severe and often fatal viral hemorrhagic fever. Outbreaks in primates —including gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans—and domestic pigs have been recorded. The disease is characterized by extreme fever, rash, and profuse hemorrhaging.
Ebola is spread when the bodily fluids of a sick patient get inside of a healthy person. These bodily fluids include blood, vomit, feces, urine, saliva, sweat, breast milk, and semen.
How contagious is it? Unlike measles or the flu, Ebola is not spread through air, water or food. It’s spread through exchange of bodily fluids such as blood, urine, feces, saliva, vomit, sweat, semen and breast milk. A person infected with Ebola is not contagious until symptoms appear.
Transmission requires direct contact with the organs, blood, secretions or other bodily fluids of infected people/animals or their dead bodies. Therefore, the risk of infection is considered to be very low if strict infection prevention and control precautions are followed.