Vaccine & treatment
None
Background
The female researcher became infected after performing an autopsy on a dead chimpanzee in the Tai forest. She recovered fully. No further human cases are known.
All strains
Tai Forest ebolavirus
Tai Forest ebolavirus (TAFV)
The Tai Forest strain has only ever been detected in one human: a researcher in Cote d'Ivoire in 1994.
Case fatality rate
1 case, no death
Outbreaks
1
Total cases
1
Deaths
0
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