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Article: Update: filovirus infection associated with contact with nonhuman primates or their tissues.
- Article from:
- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- June 22, 1990
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Since November 1989, outbreaks of filovirus infection have been described among cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) imported from the Philippines into quarantine facilities in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Texas [1-3]. Serologic evidence of filovirus infection, including three seroconversions, among workers in these facilities [4] confirms that virus can be transmitted to humans during care and management of quarantined animals.
To further assess the health risk to humans posed by the presence of filoviruses in animals in facilities for nonhuman primates in the United States, 550 persons with varying levels of exposure to monkeys (or moneky body fluids or ...