What if ebola was mutated in lab condition with influenza to make a bioweapon?
“What if ebola was mutated in lab condition with influenza to make a bioweapon?”
Let’s say it was. You’d want a vaccine AND antidote BEFORE you field tested it, because you have to field test all three at once. You have to know you can start the infection AND stop it at the same time.
When you have both, you field test with another species, like rats or monkeys first, and see if your vaccine works.
They you test on an ISOLATED human population. An offshore oil rig is IDEAL. You purposefully infect one or two people and then you see how it spreads. You make sure doc has the antidote. You wait until 20 percent, maybe a quarter are infected.
Then you give ‘Cipro’ (the antidote disguised as another drug that’s an antiviral - Cipro), to the infected and see how they recover. You vaccinate the rest with a ‘flu shot’, then you record the results.
Based on the results, you evaluate what you’ve got, and then you have to make some decisions about what its going to cost to protect your population (a lot - it would take a lot of money), THEN YOU DEPLOY IT.
Testing it anyway NEAR a West African capital city is the world’s stupidest idea. Testing it in a muslim country is also stupid - they go to Mecca from time to time.
It’s unlikely.