Yes it is a conspiracy of your own creation in your own mind, you haven’t uncovered a conspiracy, you just made one up in your head. one leap that you have to make to start forming your conspiracy, is that the Army isn’t supposed to deal with biological and infectious disease threats globally and on a large scale.
Ft. Dietrick is an Army research lab, it isn’t the international field operation of the United States Army and the United States military in Biological warfare and infectious disease operations and surveillance and suppression.
As far as debate, this isn’t a debate site, and your constant personal attacks shows the hollowness of your continued personal attacks in that post.
The Army has always been involved in the Ebola outbreaks in Africa, along with Sars and Aids, and other infectious disease.
The Army doesn’t face biological threats and disease as an afterthought, it trains for it, and prepares to operate under those conditions, and has units and schools that train soldiers as specialists in those fields, just as we train Artillery and Aviation soldiers, and Military Police in their specialities. Confronting this threat before it engulfs the world is part of what the Army is for.
To flesh that out some.
“” More than half of the routine vaccines given to service members today were codeveloped by the US military. Beyond protection of its own forces, the military’s advances also created solutions to diseases of dire importance to national and international public health. Of 15 adult vaccines licensed in the United States since 1962, the DOD played a significant role in developing eight.””
“” The U.S. military has stationed uniformed scientists in the tropics for more than 100 years, and its active overseas laboratories have been in place for as long as 58 years. Military scientists live and work in the tropics to study the disease threats in naturally affected populations. Countermeasures and candidate solutions are studied through all phases of development including field testing. These military scientists serve as goodwill ambassadors, and contribute to developing health and science infrastructure in these tropical countries. Enduring relationships between tropical DoD facilities and ministries of health, international healthcare facilities, and local healthcare providers and researchers are of great value to the U.S. at a time when diseases such as SARS and avian influenza are potential global threats. The global MIDRP military presence provides a real-time early warning system in the identification and assessment of new and reemerging disease. Data from around the world is collected, analyzed, and immediately disseminated to military leadership and other agencies by the military’s DoD Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DoD-GEIS) at the Armed Forces Health and Surveillance Center (AFHSC).
The MIDRP’s capabilities include basic science (discovery and the knowledge base to develop technological approaches) pre-clinical product optimization, and advanced animal model development. Clinical trials expertise for early FDA Phase 1 testing of drugs and vaccines through large (e.g. 42,000 volunteers for hepatitis A vaccine, and 62,000 volunteers for Japanese encephalitis vaccine) pivotal Phase 3 trials in developing nations is an especially valuable asset of the MIDRP. The DoD also has high containment laboratories, pilot Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) compliant bioproduction facilities, and FDA regulatory expertise in the U.S. and in many international settings.”
Thanks for your acronym laden post meant to assert that you know what you are talking about.
You completely miss the point and claim conspiracy theorists are conspiring against you.
This is a bad idea for a bad reason.