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To: Nifster

I give you EBOLA RESTON; yes, the monkeys had a 100% death rate.
Four of the handlers tested positive for antibodies to the virus; fortunately, with massive medical treatment, they lived.
The Reston strain was AIRBORN.
The facility was chemically nuked and closed for research forever.
Look it up.


93 posted on 08/06/2014 4:54:19 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB

I was unaware humans became ill from the Reston strain.


98 posted on 08/06/2014 7:53:25 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: 5th MEB

“Well, maybe. Remember, there are 5 different strains of the ebola virus. One of the strains, known as Ebola Reston, got its name because it was detected in a lab in Reston, Virginia, in 1989. A shipment of imported monkeys to the lab had been infected with the disease, but humans were spared.

Unlike the other strains, which are deadly to humans, Ebola Reston “can’t cause disease in humans and doesn’t behave the same in humans as it does in primates,” said Adalja.”


100 posted on 08/06/2014 8:06:41 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: 5th MEB

” Reston virus is non-pathogenic to humans, though hazardous to monkeys;[3][4] the perception of its lethality was confounded due to the monkey’s coinfection with Simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV).”

Not even close to the same thing and no not airborne.....keep spreading the fear


101 posted on 08/06/2014 8:11:09 AM PDT by Nifster
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