I was reading somewhere online that one of the other people who has been discovered to have the ebola virus also has a dog.
Apparently, in this case, they are putting the dog in a confinement for a while , so they can test and see if the dog is contagious or not. This makes a lot more sense to me than just killing the dog immediately, without even being sure if it could infect another person or not.
That is information that they need to know sooner or later anyway, because there will probably be a lot more people who have been around animals that might have gotten infected with the virus, and would have to be put down if it turns out that they are contagious.
Since this is a virus that apparently started in animals (monkeys and fruit bats), then it seems to me that it could also affect other animals, at least some of them.
Since most of the virus spread in Africa from people eating infected monkeys, and other animals, then it could also be a plroblem in some of the countries where dogs and cats are consumed as food.
