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Has their ever been a case of someone having the ebola virus in the u.s.?!?!

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No: But there was scare about an airborne ebola virus (that luckily didn't cause illness in human) outside washington, dc in the early 1990s. Read richard preston's the hot zone for details about that.

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Answered 9/11/2019

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