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Reston Ebola Crisis\Outbreak 25 Years Later
Posted by: RESTON Ebola Crisis ()
Date: October 19, 2014 12:11PM

RESTON, Va. (AP) — It had all the makings of a public-health horror story: an outbreak of a wildly deadly virus on the doorstep of the nation's capital, with dozens of lab monkeys dead, multiple people testing positive, and no precedent in this country on how to contain it.

Americans' introduction to the Ebola virus came 25 years ago in an office park near Washington Dulles International Airport, a covert crisis that captivated the public only years later when it formed the basis of a bestselling book.

Initially thought to be the same hyper-deadly strain as the current Ebola outbreak that has killed hundreds in Africa, the previously unknown Reston variant turned out to be nonlethal to humans. But the story of what might have been illustrates how far U.S. scientists have come in their understanding of a virus whose very name strikes fear, even in a country where no one has fatally contracted it.

Gerald Jaax, one of the leaders of a team of Army scientists that responded to the 1989 outbreak in Reston, Virginia, closely watched the meticulously planned transfers this month of two American aid workers from Liberia to a specialized facility in Atlanta, the first Ebola patients ever brought to the U.S. Jaax recalled his days urgently trying to corral the country's first known outbreak.

In the fall of 1989, dozens of macaques imported from the Philippines suddenly died at Hazelton Research Products' primate quarantine unit in Reston, where animals were kept and later sold for lab testing. Company officials contacted the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. — Jaax's unit — concerned they might be dealing with an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever among the monkeys.

Initial testing revealed something much worse: Ebola, specifically the Zaire strain, which had a 90 percent fatality rate in humans. Four workers at the quarantine facility tested positive for exposure to the virus.

Amazingly, they never even got sick.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/10/ebola-1989-outbreak/13860929/

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Re: Reston Ebola Crisis\Outbreak 25 Years Later
Posted by: Mortal Kombat ()
Date: October 19, 2014 02:36PM

Isn't Jaxx a character in Mortal Kombat?

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Re: Reston Ebola Crisis\Outbreak 25 Years Later
Posted by: Mmmmmmm ()
Date: October 20, 2014 12:43AM

I remember that incident....was working in Herndon, Virginia at the time.

Hazelton Laboratories was also seeking evening part-time workers....I am glad I did not apply!

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Re: Reston Ebola Crisis\Outbreak 25 Years Later
Posted by: primate ()
Date: October 20, 2014 06:47AM

Didn't that building sit empty on reston pkwy afterwards with a ribbon wrapped around it like it was a present?

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Re: Reston Ebola Crisis\Outbreak 25 Years Later
Posted by: Ebola Daycare Center ()
Date: October 20, 2014 09:39AM

primate Wrote:
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> Didn't that building sit empty on reston pkwy
> afterwards with a ribbon wrapped around it like it
> was a present?

It's off Sunset Hills Rd. It's in Issac Newton Sq. First building close to the W&O railroad bike trail. It sat empty for about six months then a daycare center leased it.

Today it is day care center with a playground.

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Re: Reston Ebola Crisis\Outbreak 25 Years Later
Posted by: Cuban Sandwich ()
Date: October 20, 2014 01:58PM

NIce! Move the kids into the Ebola house.

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Re: Reston Ebola Crisis\Outbreak 25 Years Later
Posted by: Smallie Bigs ()
Date: October 20, 2014 02:01PM

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It is gonna get you
Better run
Better hide
Better PANIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EEEEEEEEEBOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Just in time for Halloween--The Ebola Virus Costume!!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/20/2014 02:57PM by Smallie Bigs.

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Re: Reston Ebola Crisis\Outbreak 25 Years Later
Posted by: Thay ()
Date: October 20, 2014 05:29PM

Smallie Bigs Wrote:
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> EEEEEEEEEBOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
> It is gonna get you
> Better run
> Better hide
> Better PANIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> EEEEEEEEEBOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
>
> Just in time for Halloween--The Ebola Virus
> Costume!!


HEYYYYY NIGGA NIGGA NIGGGA SWWWIIINNNGGGGG NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA

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Re: Reston Ebola Crisis\Outbreak 25 Years Later
Posted by: Reston Hot Zone ()
Date: October 20, 2014 06:01PM

I have a good friend that was working for Hazelton labs at the time and was wrapped up in the original Ebola Reston.

He was questioned, had to give blood samples, not told what the issue was and what was going on, but he figured out quickly something was going on with the monkeys.
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Luckily 25 year later he is still going strong, so he was not compromised that we can tell!

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