Slyfox,
IIRC that incident/experiment was not with E. Zaire, the type that is now decimating w Africa.
Maggief,
Need the info on what kind of Ebola it was that 2as transmitted from one room to another, with those monkeys.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/09/19/how-virginia-suburb-became-ebola-epicenter/
How a Virginia suburb became an Ebola epicenter
EXCERPT - more at link
The CDC was also on the ground – to make sure the monkey handlers at Hazelton were not infected, too. They weren’t.
“It turned out, unbelievably at the time, that the strain of the virus that killed the monkeys was almost as virulent as the African strain – even though the caretakers were not infected,” recalled Dr. Frederick Murphy, a pathologist and professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch. At the time, he was director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the CDC, and one of the high-level officials called to Reston to assess the monkey outbreak.
Murphy had been there when Ebola was named in 1976; he was the first person to photograph the virus with an electron microscope. He also helped discover the Marburg virus, a sister to Ebola Zaire and Ebola Sudan – and now Ebola Reston – in the 1960s. All four, plus the Tai Forest and Bundibgyo strains, are “filoviruses,” distinguished under a microscope by their rope-like features, often with hooks, crooks or squiggles. They are deadly, and Ebola Zaire, the strain that is raging through Sierra Leone, Liberia and all of Guinea in West Africa, is the worst.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/health/there-before-ebola-had-a-name.html
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First on Earth to See Ebola
Dr. Frederick Murphy was the first person to photograph and study Ebola up close in 1976. He reflects on disease he has come to know over the last 38 years. Jeffery DelViscio
http://www.utmb.edu/pathology/faculty/bios/Murphy.asp
Frederick A. Murphy, D.V.M., Ph.D.