Something with that high a mortality rate is a major red flag.
Evolution favors that which is an optimal survival strategy. For parasites, having a very high mortality rate, especially with such a fast progression from infection to death is a very poor survival strategy given the context of a parasite.
Indicative of something that was made in a lab....purely to kill. HIV is suspected to be a bioweapon too, for slightly different reasons.
Note that outbreaks of ebola tend to happen near known bio weapon labs.
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KnightsofHubris ago
What????
What's the reason you believe that?
This is incorrect. The Sanger Institute is named for a British biochemist, Frederick Sanger, not the American Margaret Sanger.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Sanger#/search
darkknight111 ago
Something with that high a mortality rate is a major red flag.
Evolution favors that which is an optimal survival strategy. For parasites, having a very high mortality rate, especially with such a fast progression from infection to death is a very poor survival strategy given the context of a parasite.
Indicative of something that was made in a lab....purely to kill. HIV is suspected to be a bioweapon too, for slightly different reasons.
Note that outbreaks of ebola tend to happen near known bio weapon labs.
KnightsofHubris ago
Ebola is not a parasite. It's a virus.
But that is over time it doesn't preclude a mutation that creates a highly deadly virus that might not be here in a thousand years.