Posted on 08/12/2014 8:17:27 AM PDT by ArtDodger
Looking for thoughts about the 'sudden' appearance of a cure for Ebola. I think our government has studied Ebola since it first appeared and is keeping it as a weaponized virus.
An outbreak of Ebola virus erupts (naturally) in Africa. A man, appearing as charity worker, is on site feeding update information to the government. He becomes infected and insists on the cure (that he knows exists) being supplied, perhaps with the threat of informing the world of the cure's existence. The government reluctantly sends over a dose under the cover story of it being untried and only used on monkeys. Then, the patient is brought home to be kept close and quiet. Now the government has to play the Kabuki dance out about the cure is being tested and is okay for general use but with the serum available to everyone, Ebola is no longer useful as a weaponized disease.
Could this be the way this last month's drama played out?
“Could this be the way this last month’s drama played out?”
I don’t think so.
According to Big Media the “cure” for Ebola is to kill Capitalism.
That’s the cure to every problem, comrade!
The Spanish priest that received the same drug [as the American dr.] died.
Also, the drug the American dr. received was not his only treatment. He received an injection of blood from a 14 yro Ebola survivor. Since he had two very different treatments, it’s impossible to know what role either one played in his recovery.
“why could they just give him the cure and not let anyone know he was given it? “
Wouldn’t that look weird? Everyone in the hospital who contracts the disease dies, except this guy. Some US government doctor walks in, flashes a heavy ID, breezes past all the quarantine guards, gives the white guy a shot and walks out. The white guy walks out a few days later..
GMTA
Maybe the 3rd patient and the Spanish priest didn’t rate the real cure. Seems to have convinced quite a few people that the cure doesn’t work, afterall!
Lol. To think, when I saw your post, I was within a hair’s breadth of typing GMTI to you. Honest. Pretty amazing, isn’t it?
Some ebola variants that affect monkeys, for example, don't seem to affect people (Ebola Reston).
You would need sick people to even test the efficacy of a 'cure', or a vaccine.
Pretty limited opportunities for testing.
Whether there have been efforts to create a cure in case someone uses weaponized filoviruses (Ebola, Marburg) against us I do not pretend to know, but being able to just whip out a cure would mean not only familiarity with a variant which is not the same as previous variants, but have the ability to be certain the serum would work.
Let me put it this way...
If I had a medical company and I had the only cure for Ebola, the only delay would be to exercise any stock options before I let it slip that it works.
Ping...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24462697
They’ve already got a drug, favipiravir, that is in phase III clinical trials (human trials) as an anti-influenza drug. It’s a wide spectrum drug against RNA viruses:
Japan is already stockpiling this particular compound in the event of an outbreak of influenza variants. South Korea has indicated they will be purchasing this drug as well, in the event of an Ebola outbreak there.
Your guess is as good as mine as to why this compound has received ZERO exposure in the US media.
Foreign media discussion that includes mention of favipiravir.
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