Ebola virus outbreak in Africa

Doug Bank dougb at sc736
Fri May 12 12:51:09 EST 1995


In article <3ou71f$9i8 at nkosi.well.com>, jleb at well.sf.ca.us (John H. LeBourgeois) writes:

>   The reason the Hazelton lab in Reston Virigina is sealed up like chernobyl
> and a class 4 sight, is that even though that strain of Ebola was confined
> only to monkeys... THAT strain was AIRBORNE!!!

One thing has always bothered me about this...

What happened to the 'monkey farm' or whatever it is called 
in the Philippines that supplied Reston with their african monkeys?
Did they have the same outbreak?  Is that place sealed up?


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