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Due to the very close genetic relationship between humans and non-human primates many viral infectious diseases can be transmitted from non-human primates to humans and from humans to other primates. Current procedures in non-human primate husbandry and treatment centers should prevent the transmission of infectious diseases from animals to the working staff. Non-human primates may carry not only the deadly Marburg and Ebola viruses, but also dangerous herpes viruses (B virus), poxviruses (monkey pox), and flavi viruses which need arthropodal vectors and cause hemorrhagic fevers (Yellow fever, Kyasanur Forest disease, Dengue). Non-human primates can also be a reservoir of hepatitis A virus, measles and para-influenza. As in the case of other mammals, apes and monkeys are threatened by rabies, but there is a very small chance of them catching this disease in captivity.