PHILIPPINES: PHILIPPINES BAN THE EXPORT OF LIVE MONKEYS AFTER UNITED STATES SCARE OVER THE DEATH OF TWO MONKEYS FROM EBOLA RESTON STRAIN

Record ID: 566043

  • Title: PHILIPPINES: PHILIPPINES BAN THE EXPORT OF LIVE MONKEYS AFTER UNITED STATES SCARE OVER THE DEATH OF TWO MONKEYS FROM EBOLA RESTON STRAIN
  • Date: 18th April 1996
  • Summary: CALAMBA, LAGUNA, PHILIPPINES (APRIL 18, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. ESTABLISHING VIEW OF FERLITE FARMS 0.04 2. SCU SIGN READING "FERLITE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INC. RECEIVING AND BREEDING STATION" 0.07 3. SV/SCU MONKEYS INSIDE CAGE (3 SHOTS) 0.18 4. INTERIOR OF MONKEY HOSPITAL 0.21 5. SV WORKER GIVING BANANAS TO MONKEY 0.27 6. CU MONKEY INSIDE A CAGE EATING THE BANANA 0.31 7. SV ALEX LINA, OWNER OF FERLITE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INC, SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 0.42 8. SV/SCU WORKER TAKING MONKEY OUT OF CAGE THEN SHOWS IT TO PHOTOGRAPHERS (2 SHOTS) 1.09 9. SV BOXES 1.12 10. CU BOX WITH SIGN "WILD ANIMALS - PLEASE TALE CARE, DELIVERY PROMPTLY, RESEARCH ANIMALS" (ENGLISH) 1.16 11. GV QUARANTINE AREA 1.20 12. SV CAGE INSIDE QUARANTINE AREA 1.23 13. CU MONKEY INSIDE A CAGE 1.30 14. SV MONKEYS WITH BABIES INSIDE A CAGE 1.36 15. SV LINA SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 2.06 16. CU MONKEY LOOKING AT THE CAMERA 2.13 SEQUENCE 7: TRANSCRIPT: ALEX LINA: "YOU CAN LOOK AT THESE MONKEYS. THEY'RE ALL VERY HEALTHY. YOU ARE MY WITNESS HERE. YOU CAN SHOOT (FILM) EVERYTHING HERE, THEY ARE ALL VERY HEALTHY. SEQUENCE 15: TRANSCRIPT: ALEX LINA: "YES, I CONSIDER THEM AS CHILDREN ALSO. THESE BABIES. AND THEN YOU ARE GOING TO KILL IT? CRAZY! I WILL JUSTIFY, YEAH. I WILL. I WILL...I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE FINANCIAL SIDE. IT'S NOT IMPORTANT. WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THIS THING. MY ATTACHMENT HERE. THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 3rd May 1996 13:00
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  • Location: CALAMBA, PHILIPPINES
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  • Country: Phillippines
  • Reuters ID: LVA1P43QFHWUKFXO1QWZCDEKWHAT
  • Story Text: INTRO: Top Philippines monkey breeder admits a shipment of his monkeys to the United States probably carried the Ebola Reston strain of the deadly Ebola virus.

    -------------------------------------------------------------------- A top Philippines breeder on Thursday (April 18) admitted his monkeys were probably at the heart of the United States (U.S.) Ebola scare but pleaded for the lives of his animals.

    U.S. health workers on Wednesday (April 17) began killing 48 monkeys at a Texas primate research centre that may have been exposed to the Ebola Reston strain of the Ebola virus.

    The monkeys were part of a March shipment from the Philippines that Alex Lina, owner of Ferlite Scientific Research, said "probably" came from Ferlite.

    Lina said all his 800 monkeys were killed in 1989 after an earlier outbreak there of the Ebola Reston strain.

    Now he fears for the lives of the 1,600 monkeys currently at his Ferlite farm monkey farm in Calamba, south of Manila, but insisted the animals were not infected.

    "You can look at these monkeys - they're all very healthy, you are my witness here... If they had the virus, they would all be dead by now," Lina said.

    Philippine health officials on Wednesday banned all monkey exports until local and U.S. experts have checked them.

    The virus is named after the river Ebola in northern Zaire where it was first identified in 1976.

    The Ebola virus causes internal bleeding and an agonizing death.

    Outbreaks in Africa have killed hundreds of people.

    But scientists believe the Ebola Reston strain is not harmful to humans.

    It was named after an outbreak of the disease among monkeys in Reston, Virginia in 1989.


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