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Ebola virus infection in imported primates - Virginia, 1989.

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Publication Details

Virginia Epidemiology Bulletin, 89, No. 12, 1-2. 1989 CE.

Also published with same title in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 38 (1989) 831, 832-837. Discovery of the "Ebola Reston" strain of the Ebola virus. The strain is lethal in monkeys; it turned out to be non-pathogenic for humans.

Digital text from cdc.gov at this link.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this paper and its interpretation.)

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