[Smokin' Joe]

But then it also made no sense that the DOD was somehow supposedly involved in coming up with a potential antidote for ebola. Did anybody ever figure out why the DOD was involved with what the CDC or NIH should have been doing? Was it just a way to get people to connect the military with the job of “fighting disease”?

Sure it does. If the military was looking at the possibility of meeting a weaponized version of Marburg or Ebola (the two groups of filoviruses) in the field, it would make sense to have a counter to the threat. Hence, the research.

IIRC, the USSR had biowarfare labs, mainly manned by Cubans in the region before the collapse.

Now speculation runs more toward patents (held by Gates, CDC, et al) on the pathogen and any vaccine, which in the face of a rip-roaring pandemic (or even a government edict) could be a real moneymaker.

[butterdezillion]

So there are military bio researchers? If so, is that in addition to the government-funded agencies responsible to prevent pandemics and/or DHS which is supposed to handle bio-terroristic threats?