1srelluc
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I remember that well.If not mistaken the Reston, Virginia, strain came from the Philippines and may have been more adaptable for transmission through the air for some reason
When a civet infected with SARS-CoV eats a bloodsucking tick when it grooms itself, the lung-affinity of SARS-CoV gets transferred to the GI tract of the civet, complexifying viral evolution.
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It’s a little known fact, or perhaps a dark matter best forgotten, but the child care facility on Isaac Newton Square in Reston, Va., was once the epicenter of a new strain of Ebola.
As cars rush by the suburban landscape just 20 minutes from the nation’s capital, it’s hard to imagine that 25 years ago, soldiers in spacesuits were moving in and out of a “monkey house” there – a building where primates shipped into the U.S. for research were quarantined by a private company, Hazelton Research Products, before being delivered to laboratories across the country.
But the monkeys there were dying. And as it turned out, they were dying from Ebola.
How a Virginia suburb became an Ebola epicenter