Is the Ebola epidemic government created?

[Run]

We need to send Snake to investigate.

Snake would do a better job at looking like he avoided bait.

I tried trolling CITA back and he laughed.



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[Furn]

I don't read too much into things like this until people I respect start talking about it and one of those people is a friend of mine who is currently a researcher at Aberdeen university in Virology, he has multiple degrees, one from Cambridge, so the guy knows what he's talking about. He also spent a year researching viruses in Africa.

The facts are quite simple, there have been previous Ebola outbreaks but no single strain has been so resistant to medications as this one and yes viruses can mutate and become resistant, just like bacteria but and this is a big but, the pace at which this has mutated and become drug resistant is at a pace rarely if ever seen before. This screams genetic modification and it wouldn't be the first time the African people were chosen as lab subjects.

Except there's never been any medications or treatments for Ebola for it to become resistant to.

[squealpiggy]

Watch the 1995 movie "Outbreak". It is eerily similar to what's happening.

In that it involves a virus that was based entirely on the symptoms of ebola and was based on a book called The Hot Zone which was written around the time of a fairly large outbreak (52 patients) in Gabon. Sure.

[Bushbaby]

Different strain of the virus

OK? Different (patented) strain. Means it was developed in a laboratory correct?

[Furn]

Outbreak like all Hollywood infectious disease movies is very unrealistic.

For a start they all seem to work on thr premise that if they find the original host and therefore the pathogen before it has mutated, a cure or vaccine can be made in a day or two by a couple of people.

For a start if a virus has mutated then basing vaccine on the original strain wouldn't work and secondly it takes mths usually years to design a vaccine.

Also in outbreak they look at the virus under a light microscope and say it has mutated, you can't see a virus under a normal microscope and even with a high mag you can't tell if it's mutated by looking at it.

Ebola type viruses can't mutate easily like the flu can and can't just become airborne, it's a virus that effects the liver and internal organs it won't just change into a respiratory disease.

[Underboss]

The real question is. What if government of officials came out and said "yeah. We did it."

What are your thoughts then?

Second American Civil War.