Profile
- Scientific name
- Bombali ebolavirus
- Abbreviation
- BOMV
- Discovered
- 2018 · Bombali District, Sierra Leone
- Pathogenic in humans
- No (not known to cause disease)
- Case fatality (historical)
- -
- Recognised outbreaks
- 0
- Natural host
- Detected directly in two species of insectivorous bats (Chaerephon pumilus and Mops condylurus) in Sierra Leone, the first identification of an ebolavirus from live bats before any human spillover.
- CFR notes
- No human cases recorded. Pathogenicity in humans is unknown.