The Hot Zone
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In October of l989, Macaque monkeys, housed at the Reston
Primate Quarantine Unit in Reston, Virginia, began dying from a
mysterious disease at an alarming rate. The monkeys, imported from the
Philippines, were to be sold as laboratory animals. Twenty-nine of a
shipment of one hundred died with ....
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.... found out that it wasn't Zaire, but a new strain
of Ebola, which they named Ebola Reston. This was added to the list of
strains: Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, and now, Reston. These are all
level-four hot viruses. That means there are no vaccines and there
are no cures for these killers.
In 1976 Ebola climbed out of its primordial hiding place in
the jungles of Africa, and in two outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan wiped
out six hundred people. But the virus had never been seen ....
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