Agent
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Reservoir
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Ebola virusb,c
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Unknown (although asymptomatic infection has been found in several species of fruit bats)
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Marburg virusb,d
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Unknown
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Lassa virusb,e
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Mastomys species (multimammate mice)
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New World arenaviruses:
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Juninb
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Calomys musculinus (drylands vesper mouse)
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Machupof
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Calomys callosus (large vesper mouse)
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Guanaritog
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Zygodontomys brevicauda (cane mouse)
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Sabiah
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Not known; presumably an unknown rodent
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Chapare
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Not known, presumably a rodent
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Whitewater Arroyo virusi
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Neotoma species (woodrats)
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Rift Valley fever virusb
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Ruminants (eg, cattle, sheep), rats in some areas (eg, Egypt)
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Yellow fever virusb
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Primates
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Kyasanur Forest disease virusb,j
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Rodents, bats, and other small mammals; monkeys (eg, black-faced langur, South Indian bonnet macaque) appear to be amplifying hosts
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Omsk hemorrhagic fever virusb
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Rodents (including muskrats and voles)
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