with the exception of one really weird case in Reston, Virginia (this was perhaps the strangest filovirus outbreak ever. In 1989, a group of monkeys ,from the Congo Basin was imported to an animal quarantine facility in Reston, Virginia, where, according to standard quarantine protocol, they were kept in isolated styrene cages completely isolated from each other except for food/water and breathing holes. Over the course of a couple months the monkeys became sick with Ebola-like symptoms. The disease began killing them off and then animals in nearby cages became sick and died of hemorrhagic fever. When investigators began searching for the causative agent, USAMRIID technicians were shocked to find "worms" - Ebola Virus as it's colloquially known - within sight of the US Capitol building! Working at night in sweltering conditions - clearly this virus had to have become airborne as there was no other way for the disease to have been passed from one monkey to another other than through the air OR through a contaminated food or water source, BUT if it were the latter ALL of the monkeys would've gotten sick simultaneously rather than what they were seeing which was that the disease was radiating outward from the original sick monkeys to infect nearby monkeys - and therefore they had to shut off the air conditioning unit and all the fans in the building - which, in an animal holding facility in mid-August in the DC area made for a very hot and stinky work environment! However, very carefully and quietly and working at night, the technicians managed to wrangle up, remove, and sacrifice all the animals in the building, sterilize the building thoroughly with bleach, literally take the building apart brick-by-brick, sterilized all of it in an industrial kiln before dumping each piece of the building into a series of 50 gallon drums filled with concrete made by using bleach instead of water and dumped the drums in an old mine shaft they subsequently filled with more of the bleach-concrete mixture and sealed with three feet of rubber and another two feet of steel before dumping another 10 feet of regular concrete over the top and finally closed it off with a foot of top soil and planted a grove of poison oak and poison ivy ground cover. This they figured would keep anything from getting out. At the time they only had four other encounters with Ebola and knew only that it killed up to 90% of it's victims and that this particular strain was airborne and wiped out an entire monkey holding facility within two months - it turned out that every monkey in the place had Ebola and none of them survived. Also, this facility was in the nation's capital so when the Secret Service for Bush 41 heard that this bug could be crawling across the White House Lawn... Also, they completely isolated everybody working at the facility, their families, and anybody they'd chanced to contact plus two technicians who were scratched and bitten by an infected monkey in what's called "the slammer." This is a fully contained BL4 hospital ward where any medical procedure can be completed in by those people with the blue suits and nobody is let out for at least 42 days and 2 blood tests that are negative for Ebola. After all was said and done, here's the really ironic part: this particular strain of Ebola, even though it's 95% identical to Ebola-Zaire - the most deadly strain of Ebola - was asymptomatic in humans
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I remember this. (It wasn't exactly a secret.)
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