The Hot Zone

What does Johnson do with Mayinga's frozen blood?

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Gene Johnson, the civilian scientist, had thawed a little bit of Nurse Mayinga’s frozen blood and had injected it into the monkeys. Then, as the monkeys became sick, he had treated them with a drug in the hope that it would help them fight off the virus.
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Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (pp. 76-77). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.