title: An Ebola Filovirus Is Discovered in the USA: Reston, Virginia, USA, 1989.
abstract: In December of 1989, a shipment Cynomolgus sp. monkeys into the U.S. infected with Ebola virus resulted in a potential public health crisis. An emergency interagency effort to control the outbreak was mounted in Reston Virginia, the site of the nonhuman primate quarantine facility.
authors.forename: Jerry
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jaax
authors.forename: Nancy K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Jaax
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000266:history*; D029043:Ebolavirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000821:virology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008252:Macaca fascicularis; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000821:virology; D011790:Quarantine; D014768:Virginia / Q000453:epidemiology