The Ebola-Reston virus recently discovered for the first time in pigs in the Philippines, has now been confirmed infected at least a human being. Scientists are relieved because the person was not ill and is unlikely to have transmitted the virus to others. The virus is related to Ebola strains that caused the deadly hemorrhagic fever in humans in Africa. Ebola-Reston but did not cause serious disease in two dozen people previously infected by contact with monkeys dying from the viral disease. Officials are concerned about the discovery of the virus in pigs because farm animals live near humans and are thought to be "mixing vessels" in which animal viruses mutate in hazardous to humans.
The virus was known to be circulating in the Philippines since 1989, regularly appearing in deadly epidemics in monkeys. The virus was confirmed in pigs for the first time last fall, causing a survey jointly conducted by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Organization World Paris-based animal health. The person in the Philippines has been found that the disease was announced jointly by the ministries of health Philippines and agriculture January 23, stays healthy, and officials believe that it is extremely unlikely that the virus was transmitted to other humans. International and local experts are still trying to determine how the person was infected, if the virus causes disease in pigs, and if it is in wider circulation in pigs. Their findings will likely lead to recommendations to prevent pigs from being exposed to the virus.
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