On Dec. 21, 2020, the NIH announced a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which the scientists found that experimental piglets infected with RESTV developed severe respiratory disease and shed the virus from the upper respiratory tract. RESTV can infect humans but is not known to cause disease. Now the scientists express concern that pigs could serve as an ﾓinterim or amplifying host for ebolaviruses.ﾔ