Wildlife Health Specialist Group

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Commissioned by the IUCN Species Survival Commission to serve as a first response for wildlife health concerns across the world.

Pigs

Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates

A November 2012 article in Nature by Weingartl et al. experimentally demonstrates Zaire-Ebola transmission from pigs to cynomolgus macaques without direct contact.