This handout photo provided by Dr. Jerry Jaax, taken in Dec. 1989, shows the Veterinary Medicine Division team from US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in the hot zone, Nonhuman primate quarantine facility in Reston, Va. As it turns out, Americans’ introduction to the deadly Ebola virus 25 years ago came courtesy of an outbreak that turned out to be completely nonlethal to humans. Jaax, who headed up a team of Army scientists that responded to the Ebola outbreak in Reston in 1989, said he sees the echoes of his team’s work today, in the meticulously planned transfer of Kent Brantly, a physician who contracted Ebola while treating the sick in an outbreak in Africa that has killed more than 700 people. Brantly, the first Ebola patient ever brought into the U.S., arrived at an Atlanta hospital, emerging from an ambulance in a white hazardous-materials suit. (AP Photo/Gerald Jaax)
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