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Wednesday, April 17, 1996
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Ebola virus not deadly strain, doctors say
The Associated Press
ALICE, Texas — The Ebola virus that struck two monkeys in a Texas research center is not the same strain that killed hundreds of people in Africa and poses virtually no threat to humans, health officials said yesterday.
"Nobody's sick. There's not a big outbreak of something," said Pierre Rollin, chief of the special pathogens branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Rollin, an Ebola expert who has studied the deadly strain Ebola Zaire, acknowledged that human
infection was possible but had not occurred with the strain diagnosed at the Texas Primate Center.
The virus killed one monkey and led authorities to put another monkey to death at the breeding center, which provides primates to researchers around the world. An additional 98 monkeys, part of a shipment that arrived March 21 from the Philippines, remained quarantined and were being tested.
Eight people were exposed to Ebola at the Texas center. two veterinarians, five monkey handlers and one lab technician, said Kate Hendricks, an epidemiologist with
the state Health Department. All were wearing protective gear such as masks and gloves and reported no cuts or scratches. They remain under observation.
This is the first time since 1990 that Ebola has been diagnosed in the United States, officials said. The last infection also occurred at the Texas Primate Center in a shipment of monkeys from the Philippines.
Rollin said the Texas Ebola strain was highly similar to the virus that struck a Reston, Va., primate center in 1989. Four people there were exposed to the virus but never got sick. All the monkeys were put to
Officials called a news conference to stress that the Texas strain was not as dangerous as the one that infected 316 people and killed 245 last year in the central African nation of Zaire. Earlier this year, at least 13 people died from Ebola in Gabon in western Africa.
State Health Commissioner David Smith said rabies and tuberculosis were more serious threats in Texas than Ebola, which was the subject of the best-selling book Hot Zone and the movie Outbreak, both of which were based on the 1899 incident in Virginia.
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Though four months pregnant, Madonna doesn't look it, Rosenberg said. And she hasn't really suffered from typical first-trimester symptoms, like throwing up at the sight or smell of just about anything.
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