The Hot Zone
When was USAMRIID informed? What was the initial diagnosis and what evidence supported it?
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1989 NOVEMBER 13, MONDAY
By Monday morning— the day after he dissected Monkey O53— Dan Dalgard had decided to bring the problem with his monkeys to the attention of USAMRIID, at Fort Detrick.
Initial diagnosis:
A pathologist at the Institute had inspected the meat very carefully and had given it a tentative diagnosis of simian hemorrhagic fever— harmless to humans...."Source(s)
Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (p. 171). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
