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The Hot Zone
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 within a month. Dan Dalgard, the
veterinarian who cared f ....
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.... hundred people. But the virus had never been seen outside of
Africa and the consequences of having the virus in a busy suburb of
Washington DC is too terrifying to contemplate. Theoretically, an
airborne strain of Ebola could emerge and circle the world in about
six weeks. Ebola virus victims usually "crash and bleed," a military
term which literally means the virus attacks every organ of the body
and transforms every part of the body into a digested sli ....
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