There is an Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo. People are dying. The official account is accurate and incomplete, and the missing parts are the ones that explain everything.
Reasonable take on the story, but I have a question: You write that "the antiviral remdesivir, the COVID drug, (is) being moved toward clinical trials that have not yet begun."
I thought that drug, also known as "run death is near", was completely disgraced and discredited during the scamdemic. And wasn't it previously discredited as an AIDS drug as well?
How is it still out there other than the usual greed of Big Pharma?
Greed sounds about right, big pharma has a lot of unused product? Do they care if people who are dying with Ebola become their test subjects? No, I don’t think they care.
Indonesia, Ukraine and Congo all rich in mineral resources. Fighting over who will own them is on going in Ukraine and the Congo. Indonesia was settled years ago against the wishes of JFK and the CIA run by John Dulles settled it for the Rockefeller Foundation and Freeport Mc Moran by electing a puppet president in Indonesia. . Caused and effect is never identified and corrected. Band-Aid solutions apply.
Regarding Ebola, a documentary was released in 1996 by NOVA, entitled “Ebola: The Plague Fighters.” This graphic but excellently made film shows an outbreak of Ebola in Zaire in May of 1995 and the almost nonexistent medical conditions in the country, coupled with the ineffective actions of foreign doctors and aid-workers. Such squalid, primitive conditions, lack of facilities, and ineffective treatment exist in Congo today virtually unchanged from twenty years ago as shown in the documentary in Zaire.
For testing of biological weaponry, however, African nations (especially those such as Congo and Zaire) are perfect for the release of created viruses and other tailor-made bio weapons. Sound far-fetched? Consider the releases of Bacillus subtilis by the U.S. government to “test” the spread of microorganisms in civilian mass-transit facilities such as subways and buses just a few years ago. Consider all of the times the government has tested nuclear and biological weapons on soldiers and civilians.
Congo/Zaire is such a perfect test spot for bio warfare, it's even featued prominently in at least one such movie, with the (fictional) Mobata virus, originally from there that gets loose in America.
HOMEOPATHY has a history of successfully treating people during epidemics, but in our era big pharma prevents it's use. See this, from the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak:
The LMHI Mission to Ganta, Liberia (October–November 2014)
This is the most significant documented event. The Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis (LMHI), which is the global professional body for homeopathic physicians, organized and funded a team of four doctors from India, the USA, Switzerland, and Germany. They embedded at a hospital in Ganta, a town of roughly 40,000 near the Guinea border, for three weeks. The German Central Association of Homeopathic Doctors (DZVhÄ) provided additional support.
The mission was explicitly framed as adjunctive care alongside the WHO-prescribed standard supportive treatment (fluid/electrolyte management, etc.). The plan was to use and document homeopathic treatment of Ebola patients.
What Actually Happened
Here's where it gets frustrating from a data perspective. The team arrived ready to treat Ebola patients and document outcomes — but once on the ground, the hospital's circumstances shifted. According to Dr. Ortrud Lindemann, one of the physicians on the mission, the team ended up treating general hospital patients rather than the Ebola-specific cases they'd prepared for. They handled: Typhus in children, Meningitis, Severe pneumonias, Unclear fevers, Obstetric cases (Dr. Lindemann delivered babies).
The team reported that after about 10 days, word had spread about their results with these general cases, and patients were lining up to be treated by them. The Ganta hospital administration formally thanked them, stating their work had been a "blessing" for both patients and the hospital staff.
But — and this is the critical gap — the direct Ebola genus epidemicus data we'd want simply doesn't exist from that mission. ["Genus epidemicus" is a homeopathic term for the remedy(s) chosen that cover the symptoms common to the population suffering from the specific illness.] They didn't end up administering Crotalus horridus or any other genus epidemicus that covered the epidemic to a documented cohort of confirmed Ebola patients with tracked outcomes. The mission turned into a general medical humanitarian deployment where homeopathy was used successfully for other conditions, but the specific Ebola question went unanswered. The point is that the powers out there will do everything thing they can to prevent people knowing how incredibly effective homeopathic medicines are. They can't be patented.
Thank you for helping us to become aware of the actual state of these affairs. Frankly it comes off as very ugly in all too many aspects.
The draw for involvements is the minerals. The apparent afflicted see themselves as having no trustworthy friends. Intervention might be characterized as like stomping a wasp nest to help the wasps. A dangerous and likely unappreciated strategy.
I am sorry to learn about our failure here. We created the circumstances for our failure. In that we've been broadcasting that we can't save the world and won't be pursuing such ends - one supposes its a matter of unfortunate timing. It would have helped to have timely so advised the peoples we contracted to help if needed.
So, bottom line, this ebola affair is ugly. One hopes all will get through it with as little lasting disaster as humanly possible. That all, at a minimum, can use this to develop viable solutions.
Again, thank you for preparing us for the time the details may become general knowledge and disputes.
Good balanced article Dr Malone. Me, MD, FM for 34 years, retired for 4 years. Undergrad Biochemistry (now called Molecular Biology). Through Medical School in the 1990s and Residency, I did my best to keep Up to Date. I learned Virology and Genetics well. I was taught Molecular Biology in 1986 at MIT under Harvey Lodish a great scientist and teacher. Talked with him many times after class. We studied from pre prints of the 1st edidion of Molecular Cell Biology. He promised all of the students a signed first edition and did it. I had transferred to University of Texas, Austin to be closer to my Family. He mailed it to me later, one of my prized books. Every few years I would buy the newest editions in Hardbound textbooks. As a working Doc in Silicon Valley lived and worked through all the Viral Outbreaks. SARS 1, MERS, and COVID. Simple facts, Viruses mutate, it is how they survive. Learned all the Zebra diseases viral or bacterial as my patients were multinational and traveled a lot. Learned Travel Medicine, malaria, etc and how to protect my patients when travelling. Viruses and humans are as old as life itself. Heard about your work on mRNA vaccines and treatment 2 decades ago. So sad to see how your Scientific Work had been abused. I, and most of Western Medicine fell for it. Why was I so dumb to recommend the Covid vaccines to my patients? I knew better yet fell for the hysteria. Crazy public health overreach. I had to take 3 modified mRNA vaccines just to work. A huge medical experiment without proper informed consent. Likely I have Spike protein still in my body. No reliable tests. I had followed other Ebola outbreaks for years. SSDD. Now I have enough $ and have retired. I give out Medical Advice freely. Before COVID, I thought Big Pharma was a myth. Now I know better. And you helped me learn. Thank you Sir.
Inspiring, and Courageous of you, Dr. Weaver, to do a 180 on the Lies you were Told, and then, tell your story. And help others, since with medical advice! I hope many read this and realize, there is HOPE for other medical professionals.
This information is sorely needed for many reasons. The constant fighting between rogue rebels and corrupt governing is slowly seeping into our part of the world. Between the usual suspects of greed, anger and revenge sits the other giant of mineral riches which is a mighty conflict, that the U.S. is and has been a party to. This is the arena of good versus evil. The movie "Emerald Forest" directed by John Boorman is based on a true story from years ago, a telling drama of good and evil.
EBOLA shock horror is true , the hype is not same old same old climate is changing True the hype is Tosh. Do our media and leaders think we are dimmer than the proverbial 2 short planks. Find the OFF button on your TV and avoid any illegals off small boats if you live in UK as you have no idea who they are and where they come from.
Congo - maybe lots of Africa - are resource RICH. Sad their governments are so weak (or corrupt?)- probably meddled in for centuries for exploitative reasons. I've had close ties with Covenant church which has had a decades long outreach to DRC, since at least 50's; many trips w/valiant ministries there (water, education...). One friend's daughter went 20yrs ago, met a young man who had been orphaned age 10/walked miles a day for water caring for his younger sister. Thank you for reliable - if necessarily uncertain - information. Nations SHOULD have sovereignty over their resources, but they need a government capable of assuming its primary role to SECURE safety. The history of the world is 'tribes' & peoples warring over development and control of resources.
Amazingly, the CDC owns "the" patent on Ebola and all future strains.
The "SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION" section of the patent document also clearly claims that the U.S. government is claiming "ownership" over all Ebola viruses that share as little as 70% similarity with the Ebola it "invented":
Selenium (Se) is recommended since research indicates that the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus may be dependent on selenium levels in the individual raising the possibility that Se deficiency in the person may actually foster viral replication. Selenium deficiency may allow invading viruses to mutate. Selenium is a strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory that controls cytokine storms provoked from infections like Ebola.
Given the wrenching poverty in that part of the world, it's a safe bet that the average human being is not particularly well nourished. Likely, selenium is only one of a very long list of substances his diet is deficient in.
Lawdy, been doing some quick reading and all that needs to happen now is for this strain (any strain?) to mutate sufficiently to become a respiratory virus/infection.
One reason many experts think this is less likely is that Ebola’s current biology works against widespread respiratory transmission:
-Patients usually become very sick quickly,
-Transmission tends to occur late in illness,
-Severe disease limits mobility and social mixing.
Yes, Ebola is an RNA virus and can mutate.
No evidence shows it is close to becoming a highly transmissible airborne respiratory virus.
Most virologists consider that transformation is biologically possible in principle but not easy or likely based on what we currently know.
During the large Western African Ebola virus epidemic outbreak, researchers observed adaptive mutations emerging during sustained human-to-human transmission. But despite extensive spread, Ebola did not evolve into a highly contagious respiratory pathogen.
Maybe we should lock up Fauci so he does not decide to do tests on the virus to make it respiratory transmisable (spelling ?) and give some lab in Wuhan a portion of his millions of $ to do the lab work.
I had the recent hantavirus infections in mind when I learned about this current Ebola outbreak - the third known outbreak of this particular strain. To my knowledge, the Andes strain is the only known respiratory hantavirus strain - how did that strain make the jump from inhalation of rodent feces to being transmissible from person2person via breathing? Granted, it’s hard, requires prolonged contact, but we know several folk on that ill fated cruise become infected, including crew.
Seems like the burial practices, cleansing rituals AND the opposition to treatment and medical/health intervention could provide a sufficient breeding ground. At the moment I’ve read you’ve got to be pretty symptomatic to be infectious which aids in isolation and spreading. But what happens when (yes, IF) a respiratory vector gets in the mix — I’m thinking there’s enough crazies in that part of the world that would see the infected as a nice weapon of terror. I’m surprised that hasn’t been tried already (maybe it has 🤷♀️)
Who said it did? Ships are full of rodents, it is very convenient for the cruise ship industry to blame a landfill and human human transmission. To my knowledge, no one has gone in and actually tested air ducts, food sources, feces on the floor, etc. On a ship where people were kept for weeks on end.
Okaaay, the Andes variant has been known for some time, well, 3 decades, and the only hantavirus capable of human-human transmission.
Yes, there might be rodents/rats on that cruise ship but that is an extremely rare event - the safeguards are quite rigorous (the one that caught my eye was cargo is not directly loaded onto ships but rather unloaded on the pier into rodent proof containers, metal) which are then taken aboard).
Patient zero was at a known area for rodents (landfill/dump/garbage).
The only known US Andes infection was in a person who has spent time in the Chile/Argentina region.
As for your last line, I ‘spect you have a better chance of digging up that morsel than I am, so I’m holding you to inform us when you do 😉. Hopefully it has been done because by now I’m hoping that ship has been so sanitized we could probably eat off the floor anywhere. At least cleaner than my place but with an equally low chance of rodents: I have 4 rambunctious cats patrolling 24/7 — ya’know, that might be the only way to induce me to taking, say a Disney cruise: they should have some cat cafes on board, adults only, on all levels. 😀
What do COVID, monkeypox, bird flu, hantavirus, Ebola — and the next pandemic — all have in common?
They are all vulnerable to oxidation by ozone water.
Ozone water is simply water infused with energized oxygen. The result is a powerful disinfecting solution that is widely used in industries such as bottled water, food processing, and water treatment because of its strong oxidizing properties. Ozone water is 100% safe for people and instantly lethal to viruses and bacteria.
Yet the public conversation around infectious disease is always the same:
Fear.
Vaccines.
More fear.
More pharmaceutical solutions.
The simplest preventative approach is almost never mentioned.
Infection requires exposure and time. A pathogen must make contact with your body, avoid immune defenses, and multiply before illness develops.
Good hygiene and sanitation reduce that risk.
Fresh ozone water can be used as part of a hygiene-focused lifestyle by helping reduce microbial contamination in the mouth, on surfaces, and in the environment. That is the foundation of prevention: lowering pathogen exposure before problems begin.
So why is prevention discussed so little compared to treatment?
Why are sanitation, hygiene, clean water, and environmental disinfection treated as secondary issues while fear-driven messaging dominates the conversation?
A simple point-of-use ozone water system can provide fresh, great-tasting water while also supporting good health , wellness, along with a cleaner kitchen and home environment.
Reverse osmosis systems only strip minerals from water. Ozone systems take ordinary tap water and add energized oxygen with strong oxidative properties. This transforms water into a powerful source for good health and wellness.
You can live in fear of the next pandemic, or you can focus on better hygiene, cleaner water, and proactive health habits.
"Note - Dr. Len Horowitz has been a guest on this program many times. His most recent appearance on 10-1-98 is available in the Archives. BOSTON -- Shocking government documents, reprinted in a new book by a leading public health authority, reveal that the AIDS and Ebola viruses did not likely originate from African monkeys left alone in the wild.
Instead, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard graduate, and independent investigator, concludes that the viruses, that now threaten humanity's survival, most likely evolved from early cancer virus experiments in which top military-pharmaceutical scientists infected monkeys with viral genes from other animals. Such contaminated monkeys were then used to develop viral vaccines tested on humans simultaneously in New York City and Central Africa.
The first researcher to meticulously document this "man-made theory" on AIDS's origin, Dr. Horowitz stunned a large audience at the XI International Conference on AIDS in July, when he presented a scientific summary report of his investigation. As documented in Dr. Horowitz's book, "Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola -- Nature, Accident or Intentional?" (Tetrahedron, Inc., 1996; $29.95), during the 1960s, National Cancer Institute(NCI) researchers, working in collaboration with military scientists, investigated and developed viruses as potential cancer triggers.
Using monkeys and other animals, the investigators induced an array of illnesses now commonly linked to AIDS including leukemia, lymphoma, sarcoma, immune system suppression, and general wasting.
Documented records show the leukemia/sarcoma/lymphoma cancer complex, never seen in humans prior to 1978, had been the primary focus of a highly funded, yet largely secret, "Special Virus Cancer Program." By analyzing formerly classified documents, and NCI/government contracts showing how, when, where, and why such viruses were made, Dr. Horowitz's 563 page treatise concludes that the AIDS virus likely broke out as a result of contaminated polio and hepatitis B vaccine experiments. Those implicated include top AIDS researchers, biological weapons contractors, and institutions who, the published documents show, developed and tested such immune-system-ravaging agents for the NCI and Department of Defense (DOD) during the late 1960s."
"Monkeys, contaminated with assorted immune-system-destroying cancer viruses, were used to develop both polio and hepatitis vaccines. The hepatitis vaccine was administered virtually simultaneously to special populations in New York City, and Central Africa during the early 1970s. The recipients were people who had been previously exposed to polio vaccine delivered monkey viruses.
This, Dr. Horowitz said, might best explain the sudden appearance of new virus forms and AIDS cases in these areas in 1978. Additional support for this theory came from Dr. Gerald Myers, chief of a special AIDS project of the U.S. Government's Los Alamos Laboratory, who observed a "Big Bang" -- the simultaneous emergence of numerous types of HIV around the world by 1975."
Reasonable take on the story, but I have a question: You write that "the antiviral remdesivir, the COVID drug, (is) being moved toward clinical trials that have not yet begun."
I thought that drug, also known as "run death is near", was completely disgraced and discredited during the scamdemic. And wasn't it previously discredited as an AIDS drug as well?
How is it still out there other than the usual greed of Big Pharma?
Yep
Greed sounds about right, big pharma has a lot of unused product? Do they care if people who are dying with Ebola become their test subjects? No, I don’t think they care.
Indonesia, Ukraine and Congo all rich in mineral resources. Fighting over who will own them is on going in Ukraine and the Congo. Indonesia was settled years ago against the wishes of JFK and the CIA run by John Dulles settled it for the Rockefeller Foundation and Freeport Mc Moran by electing a puppet president in Indonesia. . Caused and effect is never identified and corrected. Band-Aid solutions apply.
Regarding Ebola, a documentary was released in 1996 by NOVA, entitled “Ebola: The Plague Fighters.” This graphic but excellently made film shows an outbreak of Ebola in Zaire in May of 1995 and the almost nonexistent medical conditions in the country, coupled with the ineffective actions of foreign doctors and aid-workers. Such squalid, primitive conditions, lack of facilities, and ineffective treatment exist in Congo today virtually unchanged from twenty years ago as shown in the documentary in Zaire.
For testing of biological weaponry, however, African nations (especially those such as Congo and Zaire) are perfect for the release of created viruses and other tailor-made bio weapons. Sound far-fetched? Consider the releases of Bacillus subtilis by the U.S. government to “test” the spread of microorganisms in civilian mass-transit facilities such as subways and buses just a few years ago. Consider all of the times the government has tested nuclear and biological weapons on soldiers and civilians.
Season 23: 1995–1996 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/programs/2304_ebola.html
Congo/Zaire is such a perfect test spot for bio warfare, it's even featued prominently in at least one such movie, with the (fictional) Mobata virus, originally from there that gets loose in America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak_(1995_film)
HOMEOPATHY has a history of successfully treating people during epidemics, but in our era big pharma prevents it's use. See this, from the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak:
The LMHI Mission to Ganta, Liberia (October–November 2014)
This is the most significant documented event. The Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis (LMHI), which is the global professional body for homeopathic physicians, organized and funded a team of four doctors from India, the USA, Switzerland, and Germany. They embedded at a hospital in Ganta, a town of roughly 40,000 near the Guinea border, for three weeks. The German Central Association of Homeopathic Doctors (DZVhÄ) provided additional support.
The mission was explicitly framed as adjunctive care alongside the WHO-prescribed standard supportive treatment (fluid/electrolyte management, etc.). The plan was to use and document homeopathic treatment of Ebola patients.
What Actually Happened
Here's where it gets frustrating from a data perspective. The team arrived ready to treat Ebola patients and document outcomes — but once on the ground, the hospital's circumstances shifted. According to Dr. Ortrud Lindemann, one of the physicians on the mission, the team ended up treating general hospital patients rather than the Ebola-specific cases they'd prepared for. They handled: Typhus in children, Meningitis, Severe pneumonias, Unclear fevers, Obstetric cases (Dr. Lindemann delivered babies).
The team reported that after about 10 days, word had spread about their results with these general cases, and patients were lining up to be treated by them. The Ganta hospital administration formally thanked them, stating their work had been a "blessing" for both patients and the hospital staff.
But — and this is the critical gap — the direct Ebola genus epidemicus data we'd want simply doesn't exist from that mission. ["Genus epidemicus" is a homeopathic term for the remedy(s) chosen that cover the symptoms common to the population suffering from the specific illness.] They didn't end up administering Crotalus horridus or any other genus epidemicus that covered the epidemic to a documented cohort of confirmed Ebola patients with tracked outcomes. The mission turned into a general medical humanitarian deployment where homeopathy was used successfully for other conditions, but the specific Ebola question went unanswered. The point is that the powers out there will do everything thing they can to prevent people knowing how incredibly effective homeopathic medicines are. They can't be patented.
Thank you for helping us to become aware of the actual state of these affairs. Frankly it comes off as very ugly in all too many aspects.
The draw for involvements is the minerals. The apparent afflicted see themselves as having no trustworthy friends. Intervention might be characterized as like stomping a wasp nest to help the wasps. A dangerous and likely unappreciated strategy.
I am sorry to learn about our failure here. We created the circumstances for our failure. In that we've been broadcasting that we can't save the world and won't be pursuing such ends - one supposes its a matter of unfortunate timing. It would have helped to have timely so advised the peoples we contracted to help if needed.
So, bottom line, this ebola affair is ugly. One hopes all will get through it with as little lasting disaster as humanly possible. That all, at a minimum, can use this to develop viable solutions.
Again, thank you for preparing us for the time the details may become general knowledge and disputes.
Good balanced article Dr Malone. Me, MD, FM for 34 years, retired for 4 years. Undergrad Biochemistry (now called Molecular Biology). Through Medical School in the 1990s and Residency, I did my best to keep Up to Date. I learned Virology and Genetics well. I was taught Molecular Biology in 1986 at MIT under Harvey Lodish a great scientist and teacher. Talked with him many times after class. We studied from pre prints of the 1st edidion of Molecular Cell Biology. He promised all of the students a signed first edition and did it. I had transferred to University of Texas, Austin to be closer to my Family. He mailed it to me later, one of my prized books. Every few years I would buy the newest editions in Hardbound textbooks. As a working Doc in Silicon Valley lived and worked through all the Viral Outbreaks. SARS 1, MERS, and COVID. Simple facts, Viruses mutate, it is how they survive. Learned all the Zebra diseases viral or bacterial as my patients were multinational and traveled a lot. Learned Travel Medicine, malaria, etc and how to protect my patients when travelling. Viruses and humans are as old as life itself. Heard about your work on mRNA vaccines and treatment 2 decades ago. So sad to see how your Scientific Work had been abused. I, and most of Western Medicine fell for it. Why was I so dumb to recommend the Covid vaccines to my patients? I knew better yet fell for the hysteria. Crazy public health overreach. I had to take 3 modified mRNA vaccines just to work. A huge medical experiment without proper informed consent. Likely I have Spike protein still in my body. No reliable tests. I had followed other Ebola outbreaks for years. SSDD. Now I have enough $ and have retired. I give out Medical Advice freely. Before COVID, I thought Big Pharma was a myth. Now I know better. And you helped me learn. Thank you Sir.
Inspiring, and Courageous of you, Dr. Weaver, to do a 180 on the Lies you were Told, and then, tell your story. And help others, since with medical advice! I hope many read this and realize, there is HOPE for other medical professionals.
Thank you
This information is sorely needed for many reasons. The constant fighting between rogue rebels and corrupt governing is slowly seeping into our part of the world. Between the usual suspects of greed, anger and revenge sits the other giant of mineral riches which is a mighty conflict, that the U.S. is and has been a party to. This is the arena of good versus evil. The movie "Emerald Forest" directed by John Boorman is based on a true story from years ago, a telling drama of good and evil.
I remember an excellent book by Robert Preston years ago called The Hot Zone. It introduced me to these filoviruses and was a good read . 😊
Lord have mercy.
EBOLA shock horror is true , the hype is not same old same old climate is changing True the hype is Tosh. Do our media and leaders think we are dimmer than the proverbial 2 short planks. Find the OFF button on your TV and avoid any illegals off small boats if you live in UK as you have no idea who they are and where they come from.
Congo - maybe lots of Africa - are resource RICH. Sad their governments are so weak (or corrupt?)- probably meddled in for centuries for exploitative reasons. I've had close ties with Covenant church which has had a decades long outreach to DRC, since at least 50's; many trips w/valiant ministries there (water, education...). One friend's daughter went 20yrs ago, met a young man who had been orphaned age 10/walked miles a day for water caring for his younger sister. Thank you for reliable - if necessarily uncertain - information. Nations SHOULD have sovereignty over their resources, but they need a government capable of assuming its primary role to SECURE safety. The history of the world is 'tribes' & peoples warring over development and control of resources.
Sadly, also warring even when no resources or development are involved.
Human Ebola virus species and compositions and methods thereof : CA 2741523 A1
https://patents.google.com/patent/CA2741523A1/en
Amazingly, the CDC owns "the" patent on Ebola and all future strains.
The "SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION" section of the patent document also clearly claims that the U.S. government is claiming "ownership" over all Ebola viruses that share as little as 70% similarity with the Ebola it "invented":
Selenium (Se) is recommended since research indicates that the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus may be dependent on selenium levels in the individual raising the possibility that Se deficiency in the person may actually foster viral replication. Selenium deficiency may allow invading viruses to mutate. Selenium is a strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory that controls cytokine storms provoked from infections like Ebola.
Given the wrenching poverty in that part of the world, it's a safe bet that the average human being is not particularly well nourished. Likely, selenium is only one of a very long list of substances his diet is deficient in.
05/27/26: WHO's credibility is shot to hell. And may they die in it.
Lawdy, been doing some quick reading and all that needs to happen now is for this strain (any strain?) to mutate sufficiently to become a respiratory virus/infection.
One reason many experts think this is less likely is that Ebola’s current biology works against widespread respiratory transmission:
-Patients usually become very sick quickly,
-Transmission tends to occur late in illness,
-Severe disease limits mobility and social mixing.
Yes, Ebola is an RNA virus and can mutate.
No evidence shows it is close to becoming a highly transmissible airborne respiratory virus.
Most virologists consider that transformation is biologically possible in principle but not easy or likely based on what we currently know.
During the large Western African Ebola virus epidemic outbreak, researchers observed adaptive mutations emerging during sustained human-to-human transmission. But despite extensive spread, Ebola did not evolve into a highly contagious respiratory pathogen.
Maybe we should lock up Fauci so he does not decide to do tests on the virus to make it respiratory transmisable (spelling ?) and give some lab in Wuhan a portion of his millions of $ to do the lab work.
Yes; but…
I had the recent hantavirus infections in mind when I learned about this current Ebola outbreak - the third known outbreak of this particular strain. To my knowledge, the Andes strain is the only known respiratory hantavirus strain - how did that strain make the jump from inhalation of rodent feces to being transmissible from person2person via breathing? Granted, it’s hard, requires prolonged contact, but we know several folk on that ill fated cruise become infected, including crew.
Seems like the burial practices, cleansing rituals AND the opposition to treatment and medical/health intervention could provide a sufficient breeding ground. At the moment I’ve read you’ve got to be pretty symptomatic to be infectious which aids in isolation and spreading. But what happens when (yes, IF) a respiratory vector gets in the mix — I’m thinking there’s enough crazies in that part of the world that would see the infected as a nice weapon of terror. I’m surprised that hasn’t been tried already (maybe it has 🤷♀️)
Who said it did? Ships are full of rodents, it is very convenient for the cruise ship industry to blame a landfill and human human transmission. To my knowledge, no one has gone in and actually tested air ducts, food sources, feces on the floor, etc. On a ship where people were kept for weeks on end.
Okaaay, the Andes variant has been known for some time, well, 3 decades, and the only hantavirus capable of human-human transmission.
Yes, there might be rodents/rats on that cruise ship but that is an extremely rare event - the safeguards are quite rigorous (the one that caught my eye was cargo is not directly loaded onto ships but rather unloaded on the pier into rodent proof containers, metal) which are then taken aboard).
Patient zero was at a known area for rodents (landfill/dump/garbage).
The only known US Andes infection was in a person who has spent time in the Chile/Argentina region.
As for your last line, I ‘spect you have a better chance of digging up that morsel than I am, so I’m holding you to inform us when you do 😉. Hopefully it has been done because by now I’m hoping that ship has been so sanitized we could probably eat off the floor anywhere. At least cleaner than my place but with an equally low chance of rodents: I have 4 rambunctious cats patrolling 24/7 — ya’know, that might be the only way to induce me to taking, say a Disney cruise: they should have some cat cafes on board, adults only, on all levels. 😀
What do COVID, monkeypox, bird flu, hantavirus, Ebola — and the next pandemic — all have in common?
They are all vulnerable to oxidation by ozone water.
Ozone water is simply water infused with energized oxygen. The result is a powerful disinfecting solution that is widely used in industries such as bottled water, food processing, and water treatment because of its strong oxidizing properties. Ozone water is 100% safe for people and instantly lethal to viruses and bacteria.
Yet the public conversation around infectious disease is always the same:
Fear.
Vaccines.
More fear.
More pharmaceutical solutions.
The simplest preventative approach is almost never mentioned.
Infection requires exposure and time. A pathogen must make contact with your body, avoid immune defenses, and multiply before illness develops.
Good hygiene and sanitation reduce that risk.
Fresh ozone water can be used as part of a hygiene-focused lifestyle by helping reduce microbial contamination in the mouth, on surfaces, and in the environment. That is the foundation of prevention: lowering pathogen exposure before problems begin.
So why is prevention discussed so little compared to treatment?
Why are sanitation, hygiene, clean water, and environmental disinfection treated as secondary issues while fear-driven messaging dominates the conversation?
A simple point-of-use ozone water system can provide fresh, great-tasting water while also supporting good health , wellness, along with a cleaner kitchen and home environment.
Reverse osmosis systems only strip minerals from water. Ozone systems take ordinary tap water and add energized oxygen with strong oxidative properties. This transforms water into a powerful source for good health and wellness.
You can live in fear of the next pandemic, or you can focus on better hygiene, cleaner water, and proactive health habits.
Learn more at SourcePointEnv.com.
The True Origin of Aids and Ebola - Leonard Horowitz - 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEHcru4SUVk
"Note - Dr. Len Horowitz has been a guest on this program many times. His most recent appearance on 10-1-98 is available in the Archives. BOSTON -- Shocking government documents, reprinted in a new book by a leading public health authority, reveal that the AIDS and Ebola viruses did not likely originate from African monkeys left alone in the wild.
Instead, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard graduate, and independent investigator, concludes that the viruses, that now threaten humanity's survival, most likely evolved from early cancer virus experiments in which top military-pharmaceutical scientists infected monkeys with viral genes from other animals. Such contaminated monkeys were then used to develop viral vaccines tested on humans simultaneously in New York City and Central Africa.
The first researcher to meticulously document this "man-made theory" on AIDS's origin, Dr. Horowitz stunned a large audience at the XI International Conference on AIDS in July, when he presented a scientific summary report of his investigation. As documented in Dr. Horowitz's book, "Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola -- Nature, Accident or Intentional?" (Tetrahedron, Inc., 1996; $29.95), during the 1960s, National Cancer Institute(NCI) researchers, working in collaboration with military scientists, investigated and developed viruses as potential cancer triggers.
Using monkeys and other animals, the investigators induced an array of illnesses now commonly linked to AIDS including leukemia, lymphoma, sarcoma, immune system suppression, and general wasting.
Documented records show the leukemia/sarcoma/lymphoma cancer complex, never seen in humans prior to 1978, had been the primary focus of a highly funded, yet largely secret, "Special Virus Cancer Program." By analyzing formerly classified documents, and NCI/government contracts showing how, when, where, and why such viruses were made, Dr. Horowitz's 563 page treatise concludes that the AIDS virus likely broke out as a result of contaminated polio and hepatitis B vaccine experiments. Those implicated include top AIDS researchers, biological weapons contractors, and institutions who, the published documents show, developed and tested such immune-system-ravaging agents for the NCI and Department of Defense (DOD) during the late 1960s."
"Monkeys, contaminated with assorted immune-system-destroying cancer viruses, were used to develop both polio and hepatitis vaccines. The hepatitis vaccine was administered virtually simultaneously to special populations in New York City, and Central Africa during the early 1970s. The recipients were people who had been previously exposed to polio vaccine delivered monkey viruses.
This, Dr. Horowitz said, might best explain the sudden appearance of new virus forms and AIDS cases in these areas in 1978. Additional support for this theory came from Dr. Gerald Myers, chief of a special AIDS project of the U.S. Government's Los Alamos Laboratory, who observed a "Big Bang" -- the simultaneous emergence of numerous types of HIV around the world by 1975."
Thank you Doc for the clear explanation of your complex synthesis.
There’s at least a couple of Michael Crichton books in there.