Emerg Infect DiseidEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-6059Centers for Disease Control89692482639914Research ArticleExperimental inoculation of plants and animals with Ebola virus.SwanepoelR.LemanP. A.BurtF. J.ZachariadesN. A.BraackL. E.KsiazekT. G.RollinP. E.ZakiS. R.PetersC. J.National Institute for Virology, Sandringham, South Africa.Oct-Dec199624321325

Thirty-three varieties of 24 species of plants and 19 species of vertebrates and invertebrates were experimentally inoculated with Ebola Zaire virus. Fruit and insectivorous bats supported replication and circulation of high titers of virus without necessarily becoming ill; deaths occurred only among bats that had not adapted to the diet fed in the laboratory.