Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 27, 1994 TAG: 9407270073
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: STATE
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RESTON LENGTH: Short
``A Crisis in the Hot Zone'' is scheduled for release next summer from 20th Century Fox.
The movie depicts the tense several days when scientists discovered monkeys used for research at Hazleton Laboratories in Reston were infected with Ebola, an incurable virus that had killed thousands of people in Africa.
In November 1989, monkeys at the lab began to die mysteriously. It was two weeks before the virus was identified, and several Hazleton workers had been exposed to it.
No one died, but four employees developed antibodies to Ebola. It was the only time the virus has been detected in North America.
by CNB