The Center for Disease Control has provided in the United States some guidelines about Ebola Virus and Pets. This Organization recommends that public health officials in collaboration with a veterinarian, evaluate its risk of exposure (contact with body fluids of a patient). Based on what we know about humans, an exposed pet should be monitored, in collaboration with a veterinarian, with limited contact, for a minimum of 3 weeks following exposure. Once again we want to emphasize that there have been no reports of pets playing a part in the transmission of this disease to humans.
The following video provides a list of animals that can become infected with the Ebola virus. For the veterinarians in the USA, the two species we are concerned are the dogs and pigs (including pot bellied pigs).
Jose Feneque, DVM
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