[h=1]Philippines suspends monkey exports after Ebola deaths[/h] September 10, 2015 3:30 AM Manila (AFP) - The Philippines has suspended macaque exports after an Ebola virus strain that is non-fatal to humans struck 20 monkeys, killing 11, officials said Thursday.
Eleven captive Philippine macaques have died after contracting the bat-borne Ebola Reston virus while nine others are under treatment, they said.
"All exports are suspended while we investigate this incident," Simeon Amurao, assistant director of the Bureau of Animal Industry, told AFP.
The Philippines is among the world's major exporters of laboratory monkeys and has so far shipped close to 300 monkeys to Japan this year, and 600 last year, Amurao added...
