Profile
- Scientific name
- Reston ebolavirus
- Abbreviation
- RESTV
- Discovered
- 1989 · Reston, Virginia, United States (in a primate research facility)
- Pathogenic in humans
- No (not known to cause disease)
- Case fatality (historical)
- -
- Recognised outbreaks
- 0
- Natural host
- Likely fruit bats in the Philippines. Reston virus has been detected in cynomolgus macaques imported from the Philippines and in Philippine domestic pigs.
- CFR notes
- No confirmed human deaths. Serological evidence of human infection exists in animal handlers, but no symptomatic disease has been documented in humans.