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The True Story of Ebola in Reston, Virginia
canadafreepress.com ^ | August 5, 2014 | Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

Posted on 08/06/2014 5:35:41 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012

In October 1989 people in the community of Reston, Virginia went about their daily lives not realizing that a serious crisis was developing right in their back yards that would not be entirely resolved until March 1990. It was a serious calamity that could have wiped out the entire population. This dire emergency was described twenty years ago by Richard Preston in his non-fiction book, “The Hot Zone.” The “hot zone” refers to an “area that contains lethal, infectious organisms” also dubbed “hot agent,” an “extremely lethal virus, potentially airborne.” (Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, Random House, New York, 1994, p. 296)

The people in the book are real, two victims’ names have been changed, and the narrative and dialogue were masterfully reconstructed from interviews and memories of those who participated in the crises.

Hazelton Research Products, a division of Corning, Inc. was importing and selling lab animals. On October 4, 1989, the monkey house called Reston Primate Quarantine Unit located not far from Leesburg Pike, received a shipment of one hundred crab-eating monkeys (a type of macaque) from the Philippines, caught on the island of Mindanao. Two of the monkeys were dead in their shipping crates. By the first of November, 29 of the monkeys were dead, most of them in Room F. The heating and air system had failed so it was assumed the deaths had occurred from ambient conditions. Each night more macaques died. By November 16, a tentative diagnosis was given “simian hemorrhagic fever.”

Thomas Geisbert, an intern at the Institute discovered under his electron microscope the dreaded Ebola virus. Dr. Jahrling tested the virus cultures from the macaques against three known blood serums:

Musoke (test for Marburg virus) Boniface (test for Ebola Sudan) Mayinga (test for Ebola Zaire)

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: ebola; fairfaxcounty; reston; virginia
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1 posted on 08/06/2014 5:35:41 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Yet there is a FReeper who cites having monkeys with Ebola in a few labs in our country as justification for bringing every American Ebola patient back to America for treatment!

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

2 posted on 08/06/2014 5:40:52 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: ilovesarah2012
I am reading it now
THe "HOT ZONE " by Richard Preston
Dewey decimal system : '614.57 Pre '
11 out of 15 copies are out in my library system ,
There is some concern ,.. by those who wish to be informed !
3 posted on 08/06/2014 5:50:07 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Political Correctness is Tyranny .. with manners ! Charlton Heston)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

I find this troubling:

Those Hazleton workers who had the virus—I’m pretty sure they got it through the air.” (p. 257)


4 posted on 08/06/2014 5:54:11 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

http://learn.flvs.net/educator/common/EnglishIIv10/TheHotZone.pdf


5 posted on 08/06/2014 5:56:07 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: ilovesarah2012

I’m not worrying about Ebola. There’s more than enough domestic stuff to concern us.

Health Officials Issue Warning After Eagle County Man Dies From Hantavirus
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/08/05/health-officials-issue-warning-after-eagle-county-man-dies-from-hantavirus/


6 posted on 08/06/2014 6:15:46 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Unarmed people cannot defend themselves. America is no longer a Free Country.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Read “THE HOT ZONE” by Richard Preston for free here:

http://learn.flvs.net/educator/common/EnglishIIv10/TheHotZone.pdf

“In October 1989 people in the community of Reston, Virginia went about their daily lives not realizing that a serious crisis was developing right in their back yards that would not be entirely resolved until March 1990. It was a serious calamity that could have wiped out the entire population. This dire emergency was described twenty years ago by Richard Preston in his non-fiction book, “The Hot Zone.” The “hot zone” refers to an “area that contains lethal, infectious organisms” also dubbed “hot agent,” an “extremely lethal virus, potentially airborne.”


7 posted on 08/06/2014 6:25:38 AM PDT by Iron Munro (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government --- Thomas Paine)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I have some 3M masks that are good against anything, even Anthrax. Looks like I’ll have to get some more.


8 posted on 08/06/2014 6:28:23 AM PDT by Minsc
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To: Minsc

It is not just the mask that is needed, you need to know how to properly decon yourself or family/friends.

I suspect the doctors got sick due to improper doffing of protective PPE, contacting surfaces in the decon area/hot zone.


9 posted on 08/06/2014 6:38:38 AM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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To: BuffaloJack
Hantavirus isn't terribly unusual.


10 posted on 08/06/2014 6:47:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: Minsc

Do you have eye protection as well? Your eyes are vulnerable as well.


11 posted on 08/06/2014 6:50:44 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: ilovesarah2012

I remember when this happened but I don’t remember it being called Ebola.


12 posted on 08/06/2014 6:59:42 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

The Hot Zone is a non-fiction page turner. I have read it twice. You cannot put it down. It is that good!


13 posted on 08/06/2014 7:00:00 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama stands for the corruption of America in all aspects.)
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To: Ditter

Its generally called the Reston virus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston_virus


14 posted on 08/06/2014 7:04:40 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Read last night up until they introduced COLs Jaxx....I couldn’t sleep very good last night. Literally, Monte’s visit to Kitum cave made him a human, biological bomb. Terrifying.


15 posted on 08/06/2014 7:08:00 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Minsc

You need P100 filters. N95 almost worthless.


16 posted on 08/06/2014 7:09:03 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: DCBryan1

Jaxx was very lucky!


17 posted on 08/06/2014 7:13:16 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: EBH

Exactly; even the best specialist can slack off every once in a while.


18 posted on 08/06/2014 7:17:32 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Sometimes it is not even really “slacking off.”

If you have ever been trained for hazmat work or pharmaceutical clean room work it can be astounding that one is so conscious and so careful...and yet you still...still ...come up contaminated or with a hot particle.

So given the situation on the ground there, I’d be hard pressed to think we wouldn’t have people providing care turning up with ebola.


19 posted on 08/06/2014 7:22:48 AM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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To: EBH

I can only think that one major reason is that a lot of the areas that hold the patients are not properly set up to handle something at this level. So I admit, blaming the carer is wrong of me. I do still believe that right now, we’re insanely lucky that we have the technology that we do.


20 posted on 08/06/2014 7:26:37 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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