This virus – named after a side river of the Congo River – is thought to occur in fruit bats and in small monkeys without lethal symptoms. Transmission among humans occurs by contact to contaminated body fluids (e.g., blood, lymph, sweat). Thus transmission cannot be excluded, if flies get in contact with such sources, since it was shown by Gestmann et al. (2012) and Förster et al. (2012) that flies may easily transport and carry large numbers of bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
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Mehlhorn, H. (2015). Ebola Transmission. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_4972-1
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