1. At that time, infected monkeys from the same shipment also were sent to the Alice quarantine facility and other U.S. facilities, Simpson said. 2. But the eight people who came in contact with the infected monkeys before the monkeys became ill will be monitored. 3. In all four outbreaks in Virginia and Texas, Ferlite Scientific Research Inc., a Filipino breeder, supplied the infected monkeys to HRP facilities. 4. Meanwhile, the Philippines banned all monkey exports Wednesday after learning that a Filipino breeder supplied the infected monkeys. 5. Mice injected with the original sets of brain tissue or with infected monkey brain also developed the same symptoms. 6. The fourth cut himself with a scalpel while conducting an autopsy on an infected monkey and was found to have the live virus in his body. 7. The Philippines, from whence the infected monkeys came, has halted all monkey exports. 8. Then they found that killer T-cells proliferated in infected monkeys and in humans at the same time as the AIDS virus replication was brought under control. 9. They refused to grant permission to The Kansas City Star to photograph the infected monkeys. 10. Two of the six infected monkeys died of AIDS and some of the remaining have symptoms related to AIDS, Dr. Ruprecht said. |