http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Canadian investigators have shown that a species of ebolavirus from Zaire that is highly virulent in humans can replicate in pigs, cause disease, and be transmitted to animals previously unexposed to the virus. The findings are published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases and are now available online. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-pigs-susceptible-virulent-ebolavirus-transmit.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 13 May 2011 03:50:02 EST news224477377