Bombali ebolavirus or Bombali virus (BOMV)[1] is a species of the genus Ebolavirus, first reported on 27 July 2018.
[2] It was discovered and sequenced by a PREDICT research team from the U.S. in the Bombali area in the north of Sierra Leone, west Africa.
[5] In 2019, the virus was demonstrated in Angolan free-tailed bats in southeast Kenya and southeast Guinea.
[6][7] Bombali ebolavirus has the capacity to infect human cells, although it has not yet been shown to be pathogenic.
[8][9] The team reporting the virus also published its full genome sequence (NC_039345).