[mountainlion]

Or perhaps introduced from a laboratory as an experiment.

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.

[arthurus]

Africa is the natural testing ground.

[RinaseaofDs]

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.