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Originally Posted by chemgear
Has it? I thought it was the first time with diagnosed people in the US (with symptoms?)
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Outbreak is certainly the wrong word to describe it. That was my old brain mis-remembering. There was, however, an Ebola strain first described in the United States called Ebola Reston. It was isolated from imported monkeys. The CDC tracked shipments of these monkeys to New York, Texas, and Mexico. No human infections were incurred. One animal handler came in contact with the virus, but did not contract the disease. Thankfully, this strain has low pathogencity to humans.