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Vindicator ago

Ebola spreadability peaked with the 2014 outbreak

As I recall, didn't that outbreak create a spike in gold prices? Might be worth investigating that and who the biggest profiteers were.

Also, one of the fishiest things about that whole bruhaha was when the NBC cameraman (an employee for one day! redshirt?!) contracted Ebola, the whole news crew was quarantined, and then the chief medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, violated the quarantine by going to a restaurant as if it didn't matter she might be incubating the world's most horrific disease. Remember this?

"Several Planet Princeton readers have reported seeing NBC News Chief Medical Editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman in public over the past day.

Snyderman allegedly was seen sitting in her car outside of the Peasant Grill in Hopewell Boro this afternoon. A reader reported that a man who was with her got out of the car and went inside the restaurant to pick up a take-out order. Another man was in the back seat of her black Mercedes. Snyderman had sunglasses on and had her hair pulled back, the reader said.

NBC did not respond to inquiries about Snyderman today, and Snyderman could not be reached for comment.

Snyderman has been NBC’s chief medical correspondent since 2006. She joined the network after 15 years as a correspondent with ABC. She also previously served as a vice president at Johnson & Johnson."

New Jersey then slapped the whole team under mandatory quarantine, and NBC and Snyderman were forced to apologize.

Her "apology" said, "As a health professional I know that we have no symptoms and pose no risk to the public."

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darkknight111 ago

The big red flag to me as a microbiologist is that ebola is a supposed “zoonostic parasite” yet there was never a true positive ID of the resevoir species after 30+ years.

Compare with Hanta where the CDC had that thing figured out within a few weeks.

septimasexta ago

Exactly. I think it was engineered from an already existing hemorrhagic fever virus. Initially, it was too virulent. Just my opinion.

If the source is reliable, this is a relevant article:

"The Terrifying Story Of How Ebola Once Escaped Africa And Landed In Europe" Jul. 31, 2014, 1:43 PM

"But as it turns out, Ebola already jumped from Africa to Europe once before — 20 years ago. Here's the story behind the strange case."

"In 1994, several chimpanzees were found dead and decomposing in Taï National Park, in the Côte d'Ivoire. On November 16 of that year, three researchers who had been studying the park's community of chimps wanted to figure out what was happening, so they dissected the body of one who had been dead for less than 12 hours."

""They found signs of hemorrhage and non-clotting blood," a case report, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, explains. "Eight days later, 1 of the researchers, a 34-year-old woman, became ill.""

"The woman, a Swiss zoologist, started "shivering with fever," and thought she had come down with malaria."

"Ebola hadn't emerged in Africa in 15 years, and never been detected in the region — and, in any case, doctors still suspected malaria."

"Doctors checked her for parasites and didn't find any. They rehydrated her and administered antibiotics. But her condition didn't improve...That's when a dramatic decision was made: She would be flown out of the Côte d'Ivoire and back to Switzerland."

"they suspected it could be Lassa fever, a hemorrhagic fever similar to (though generally less deadly than) Ebola. The Swiss Air Ambulance jet that transported her took extensive precautions."

"In December 1994, they launched an epidemiological investigation to try to determine what had been killing the chimpanzees in the park — including the chimpanzee the zoologist had dissected. An analysis concluded that it was "a highly lethal epidemic with hemorrhagic syndrome," though the possibilities were still somewhat broad: "a viral infection of unknown origin, anthrax, dengue, and African hemorrhagic fevers" were all considered."

"Researchers isolated the virus from the patient's serum sample and found something surprising: a novel version of the Ebola virus, one that had never been seen before. They dubbed it the Côte d'Ivoire strain (EBO-CI), also called the Taï Forest strain.What's more, they found the very same virus in the organs of the chimpanzees. "

"The Taï Forest strain has not been found in humans since her infection 20 years ago." https://www.businessinsider.com/ebola-once-escaped-africa-and-landed-in-europe-2014-7