Posted on 08/08/2014 11:12:09 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Or perhaps introduced from a laboratory as an experiment.
I’m pretty sure we are going to find out that this has been caused by global warming.
What would Africa have become if the west had kept their colonies?
Or a Russian bio weapon.
Colorado State University had a disease in deer that they introduced into the local deer population through their top secured biolab.
“What would Africa have become if the west had kept their colonies?”
Interesting question...
Not much different than today, I would think. some would be advancing and wealthier, but most would probably still be torn by the same ethnic/tribal strife we see today.
Except the German pre-WW1 colonies, that were progressing at a much faster rate, in both wealth and education levels, than the other Euro ones were.
Probably introduced from "bushmeat" - bats, monkeys, anything that moves. There is some thought that Bats are the reservoir for ebola. Fruit bats are know to carry it, but it isn't certain that they don't die from it.
Africa is the natural testing ground.
If the bats carry it it’s probably in bat guano as well.
I read the book and saw the movie. Neither one ends well. And neither one imagined the war-torn areas and refugee camps that would be horrific if a pandemic disease spreads in them.
It can be argued that the African nations are still strongly beholden to their colonial masters.
Mali and Chad both depended on French troops to bail them out. French trading companies are the economy. Industry such as it is in Burkina Faso is Dependent on French companies
Africa is the natural testing ground.
0 and Putin both could use a crisis to help them along.
Here’s a comment about bioweapons in general, and why thinking this is a bioweapon is 99 percent likely to be barking up the wrong tree:
For a bioweapon to work, you have to have a vaccine that guarantees that you don’t kill your own army and your own citizens in the process.
Launching a bioweapon, in Central Africa, and not having a vaccine for it isn’t much of a strategic plan.
Now, whatever ZMAPP is, maybe it is a vaccine, but vaccines don’t work on infected patients. We’ll see if these two recover or not, even if they do, you won’t see them for a while BECAUSE THEY WILL BE SHEDDING VIRUS FOR WEEKS even if the symptoms are gone.
That’s the other problem with bioweapons - they keep on killing even after you aren’t interested in having them kill anymore.
If you want to test a bioweapon, you need to take it into a closed off community, and then test it there. You want it to kill quick, very quick, and you want it to burn out fast.
This probably isn’t a bioweapon. This probably didn’t come from a lab.
Just pror to the anthrax attack, IIRC, there was a TV program on our labs....I think including Ft Detrick...
This almost seems to have the same mo.
Has the US already been infiltrated? The recent illegals via Mexico would certainly be a possibility.
Then there's the stupidity of the African conference at the White House. Obama is an idiot!!
Other diseases that should be ruled out before a diagnosis of EVD can be made include: malaria, typhoid fever, shigellosis, cholera, leptospirosis, plague, rickettsiosis, relapsing fever, meningitis, hepatitis and other viral haemorrhagic fevers.
source: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
Yikes.
Actually, this was known and reported back in April .... media has ignored it. Interestingly, the guy who discovered Ebola says (this month) that it is Ebola ‘Zaire’. I’ve posted both links.
Ebola outbreak is new strain 97% similar to Zaire strain, blamed for 135 deaths out of 197 cases [Thu Apr 17, 2014 at 09:52 PM PDT]
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/18/1292886/-Ebola-outbreak-is-new-strain-97-similar-to-Zaire-strain-blamed-for-135-deaths-out-of-197-cases#
It’s the deadliest strain, says the man who discovered Ebola [Aug 1, 2014, 10.03PM IST]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Its-the-deadliest-strain-says-the-man-who-discovered-Ebola/articleshow/39434060.cms
The idea that this is a weapon is nonsense, and you do a good job showing why (in addition to the lack of any evidence that it isn’t a natural phenomena). I would add one thing: wherever Ebola roams, it is likely to invade native species, and become an endemic problem, and will recur with mutations over a long time period. Even if you had a vaccine against this strain, it would offer little or no protection against the strains that would later emerge.
They might be better off economically, but they’d still have monkeys and fruit bats and, thus, ebola.
And even more interesting is how can they already have a cure for a brand new strain ? That was some very fast serum creation. Seems as if the cure cannot work as they state it has. Or the cure was developed along with strain. Only those two possibilities exist as far as I can tell. And they knew this was a new strain way back in April. Also discovered the first victim. A 2 year old child.
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