Ebola Reston
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Ebola Reston is a strain of the Ebola virus. In 1989 crab-eating macaques imported from the Philippines ended up in the Hazleton Research Products facility in Reston, Virginia where the deadly outbreak occurred.
This specific strain of the Ebola virus caused a rather large panic, but after containment, it was discovered that although closely resembling Ebola Zaire, it proved fatal to only non-human primates. However, four of the Reston primate handlers tested positive for antibodies to the virus, suggesting that they had been infected but were asymptomatic.
Ebola Reston is indistinguishable under an electron microscope from other Human-type Ebola, yet deadly to the monkeys that were in the Reston research facility. This strain is spread via airborne means.The surviving monkeys were euthanased as a precautionary measure.
The outbreak was the subject of Richard Preston's best selling 1994 novel, The Hot Zone.
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