Later, the geniuses at USAMRIID found out that it wasn’t Zaire, ! but a new strain of Ebola, which they named Ebola Reston. It is so lethal that nine out of ten of its victims die. Ebola Zaire is the most lethal of all strains of Ebola. Much to his horror, the blood tested positive for the deadly Ebola Zaire virus. Peter Jahlring of the Institute was in his lab testing a virus culture from the monkeys. Dalgard decided to enlist the aid of the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) to help diagnose the case. Dan Dalgard, the veterinarian who cared for the monkeys, feared they were dying from Simian Hemorrhagic Fever, a disease lethal to monkeys but harmless to humans.ĭr. Twenty-nine of a shipment of one hundred died within a month. The monkeys, imported from the Philippines, were to be sold as laboratory animals. 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.
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