Ebola found in pigs (thankfully, it's the one harmless type)

Not Exactly Rocket Science
By Ed Yong
Jul 9, 2009 11:00 PMNov 5, 2019 12:13 AM

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As the world is now painfully aware, pigs can act as reservoirs for viruses that have the potential to jump into humans, triggering mass epidemics. Influenza is one such virus, but a group of Texan scientists have found another example in domestic Philippine pigs, and its one that's simultaneously more and less worrying - ebola.

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