Profile
- Scientific name
- Taï Forest ebolavirus
- Abbreviation
- TAFV
- Discovered
- 1994 · Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
- Pathogenic in humans
- Yes
- Case fatality (historical)
- -
- Recognised outbreaks
- 1
- Natural host
- Reservoir not identified. Outbreak was traced through an infected chimpanzee carcass; bat reservoirs hypothesised.
- CFR notes
- Only one recognised human case (a Swiss ethologist conducting an autopsy on an infected chimpanzee); the patient survived. No CFR can be reliably calculated from a single case.