Ya know, my tin hat went on the other day when they announced that those 2 Americans with Ebola were being brought to the U.S. for better "treatment". Uh huh. Why? Why bring that bug over here, onto our continent, when we can't cure or treat it here anyway? Sure, they used that old excuse that we could treat it better on our soil and that "We'll be very careful", but why have so much hubris to even take the risk of that special bio-level 4 containment plane crashing, or even the containment ambulance getting into an accident on our highways? Accidents do happen. So I know that excuse is nothing but a cover for their load of horse poop. Ebola still has no cure or effective treatment and that immune booster drug they're trying on those 2 has no track record of actually helping kill the Ebola virus in a human patient anyway. In fact, they already had used that drug on those 2 in Africa, where the FDA has no regulatory control. Plus, the CDC has just been embroiled in a scandal about lost and misplaced samples of Smallpox, Anthrax and Bird Flu, so their ability to handle dangerous pathogens is at the very least, questionable!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... story.html
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/health/s ... y-cdc-says
So the only thing I could come up with was that
someone in our government wants to have a controlled sample of that particular bug in their hot little bio-level 4 facility hands, for "research".
Suuuure, if you think our military "never" wants to produce some type of bio-weapon. By the way, a cousin of Ebola has already gotten loose in the U.S. An airborne and non-lethal to humans previously undiscovered close relative of Ebola, so new that they named it after the place it was discovered in, the
Reston Virus. This nasty little bug got loose from a quarantine lab in Reston, Virginia in the 1980's, right next to Washington DC of all places. A caretaker got it from infected monkeys, a virus which was, and is, still lethal to monkeys. This caretaker had no body fluid to body fluid contact with the monkeys and the lab people didn't even realize it was airborne transmissible,
until their caretaker came down with flu-like symptoms. After much detective work and head gnashing, they figured out how he got sick, how he caught the bug from within the lab itself and that he had already spread it out into the population by the time they'd figured it out! Whoopsie! Everybody in the U.S. has probably been exposed to the Reston Virus by now. You want to get an eye opener about Ebola? Read the book,
"The Hot Zone".