Genome patents are routinely issued to the organization who first sequences it and files.
The ebola strain that usgov holds the patent to is an obscure one with very low mortality.
Fedgov has lots of other genome sequences patented as well. Simply because the genome was sequenced in a fedgov lab.
If they were being evil with this patent, do you think they’d have filed a patent?
How many weaponized strains do you think they bothered to file a patent on?
The application for U.S. Patent #: 20120251502. Ebola Patent is found and discussed at http://www.avianflutalk.com/us-patent-20120251502-ebola-patent_topic31500.html
It may be an obscure one with very low mortality as you say but it also has aspects listed that makes it sound like it could be the mother of the tree of good and evil if you don’t mind mixed metaphors.
Why would they (the Dark Side) want a paper trail to weaponized virus strains when they can access the malleable EboBun?
That the Dept. of Health, who filed the application, allegedly handed over most of the rights to a virologist employed by the Center for Disease Control isn’t very heartening, either, in a transparent sense.
Right. This kind of thing happens all the time, some parma lab patents, say, the gene sequence for polio. Doesn’t mean they invented the disease.