Why don’t dogs get sick from the virus? Seems that would be useful information for treatment or vaccine ideas.
Lots of diseases don’t infect other species. Pretty common.
Interesting thought. The BAD news is that it appears dogs can carry the virus and they don’t show symptoms, but can possibly pass it on via saliva/bite. Scenario: your little street urchin is sitting on the curb and a dog bites him or licks him on the face or hand .... new Ebola case (?).
Question - can dogs pass the virus to each other via bite/saliva .... I’m guessing ‘yes’ & you know these feral dogs are fighting over food all the time. So now you potentially have a whole population of Ebola carriers. As someone else mentioned - you know other animals are eating the dead bodies the dogs dig up - can they be carriers?