--- title: That Adorable Dog in the Sink Doesn't Have Ebola description: We finally have good news about Ebola: That adorable dog in the sink you saw on Twitter today doesn't have the disease. canonical: https://time.com/3510986/ebola-dog-sink/ author: Alex Fitzpatrick article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-15T20:05:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:50.217Z og:title: That Adorable Dog in the Sink Doesn't Have Ebola og:description: We finally have good news about Ebola: That adorable dog in the sink you saw on Twitter today doesn't have the disease. og:url: https://time.com/3510986/ebola-dog-sink/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: That Adorable Dog in the Sink Doesn't Have Ebola twitter:description: We finally have good news about Ebola: That adorable dog in the sink you saw on Twitter today doesn't have the disease. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Good News! 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[Here](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/227220743674527448/) is the picture posted to Pinterest 18 weeks ago. [Here’s a version](http://imgur.com/dwls1pB) posted seven months ago. [Here](http://loldamn.com/why-u-do-dis.html) it is posted in June of last year. And [here’s a very similar photo](http://imgur.com/wHcwAiI) of my mom’s King Charles Cavalier, Scout, which isn’t really relevant at all, but c’mon, _aww._ To sum up: This dog ain’t got Ebola. In fact, the nurse’s dog might not have Ebola either. Bentley, the King Charles Cavalier who is owned by nurse Nina Pham is merely under quarantine. [And as we explained earlier this week](http://time.com/3480961/ebola-animals-transmission/), “To date, there is no documented case of Ebola spreading to people from dogs or dogs to people.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3510986/ebola-dog-sink/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3510986/ebola-dog-sink/"},"headline":"Good News! 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