Ebola virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates, with case fatality rates often exceeding 80% (see Geisbert et al., doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000225).
Image Credit: Thomas W. Geisbert, Boston University School of Medicine
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