After the 2017 Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak in Likati, a district in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, we sampled small mammals from the location where the primary case-patient presumably acquired the infection. None tested positive for EBOV RNA or antibodies against EBOV, highlighting the ongoing challenge in detecting animal reservoirs for EBOV.
Keywords: Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ebola virus; Ebola virus disease; Ebola virus infection; Eidolon helvum; Potamochoerus porcus; ecology; infectious disease reservoir; mammals; viral zoonoses; viruses; zoonoses.