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Dead lab monkeys infected w/ a new Ebola strain in 1989 were hidden by government scientists in a car's trunk & driven from Reston, Virginia to Ft. Detrick, MD.
Mar 5, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Secret keepers:

In 1989, Reston, Va lab monkeys started dying.

DOD's Ft. Detrick scientists & CDC were called in.

Monkey samples positive for Ebola.

Trash bags filled w/ dead monkeys loaded into a car & driven back to Detrick's lab.

Didn't tell the press or the public. Page 190 of The Hot Zone, b... 2/Nancy Jaax, a Ft. Detrick scientist & her colleague put the bagged, Ebola-infected monkeys in his car.

They joked she'd watch for drips.

Lab's monkeys had a new strain of Ebola, later determined to be not as deadly to humans.

It became known as the Reston Virus (RESTV). Page 189 of The Hot Zone, b...