Ebola ubiquity

[Ebola Boy]

On Sun, 28 Apr 1996 15:37:26 -0700, "Encarnacion Perez, Jr."
<e.perezjr. at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>While all of the news reporters and scientists go on about the changing 
>nature of Ebola Reston and other "Reston-like" Ebola, it is interesting 
>to note that the monkeys in Alice Texas came from the Phillipines.  
>Didn't the original Reston monkeys come from Africa?  If this is true 
>then I think that we may have more of a problem than we realize.
>Then again, if the Reston monkeys also came from the Phillipines, my 
>argument is full of hot air.  But consider this, all of the other Ebola 
>organisms have come from Africa (Zaire, Tai, Marburg) what is this coming 
>out of the Phillipines?  How did it get there in the first place?  How 
>similar is it to the African strains?  Is Ebola in other rain forests 
>that we don't know?
The original 1989 Reston, VA monkeys came from the Philippines,
also a group was sent to the Alice site at about the same time
which also showed the same virus, and were destroyed.
I only heard about this incident after the most recent Alice
story.

In Siena Italy, in 1989 also, a group of monkeys showed ebola.

All these monkeys have come from the same facility, run by
Ferlite.  Essentially the same incident repeated 4 times.

All the other filoviruses are African and I don't know how
they differ from the P.I. Ebola Reston, or if the Reston virus
did originate in Africa.  But, I'll keep watching here for more
info.