Ebola Can Be Weaponized

by JASmius



JASmius Echo Syndrome seems to be insatiable these days:

Recalling that the Soviet Union stockpiled hemorrhagic fevers during the Cold War, a federal health official warned Tuesday the Ebola virus could be similarly wielded as a potential weapon of mass destruction.

"Theoretically, you can manipulate almost any virus to change it in any way you want," National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, Anthony Fauci, told a Senate hearing, the Hill reports.

I've been saying this for the past two and half months, dating back to the onset of Barack Obama's border crisis. How difficult would it be for an American enemy to weaponize an infectious virus, infect any number of "Patients Zero," and inject them into the flood of migrants streaming through Mexico towards what used to be the U.S. border? Whether it be a super-influenza, a super-cholera, a souped-up version of the bubonic plague - a plan for which was on an ISIS member's captured laptop, remember - or, yes, Ebola?  It'd be the perfect cover for a plague attack. And recall as well the "bizarre" lung infection that recently arose in Ohio right after the start of the school year and has infected over a thousand school children across five Midwestern states (and counting).  No, it isn't Ebola, and it's not known to be a weaponized virus, at least not yet, but we are wide-open vulnerable to pretty much any bio-weapon an enemy can spray, cough, or bleed on us.  And the beauty of that mode of attack is that we won't even know we're under attack until well after it's underway.

Mr. Fauci, of course, had to hedge his bet:

"The only trouble is, it wouldn't be easy for somebody to do that in their backyard laboratory. They would probably kill themselves doing it. It would take a state-type [actor]."

Like, say, Syria?  Or Iran?  Or Pakistan?  And who's to say al Qaeda or ISIS haven't the resources to cook up some potent bugs themselves, or buy from states that have and can?

And even apart from plague attacks, it's not like the Ebola pandemic isn't raging, and spreading, out of control as it is:

Fauci, whose agency is part of the National Institutes of Health, told lawmakers Ebola will continue to mutate in potentially dangerous ways unless it's contained.

For example, he pointed out, Ebola now is spread through bodily fluids, but there's a possibility — albeit slim — it could become airborne over time.

"It is an unusual situation where a mutation would completely change the way a virus is transmitted," he said, The Hill reported. "It is not impossible but it would be unlikely."

"We never take anything like that lightly. Changing transmissibility … is obviously something that could be a frightening thing."

Something tells me the possibility of airborne transmission of Ebola is not nearly as slim as Mr. Fauci wants us to believe it is.  Something as in the fact that he's an Obama Regime official, and they are doing everything humanly possible to pooh-pooh and downplay the threat posed by the Ebola outbreak, and they are about as transparent as a dark matter nebula.

But Mr. Fauci is unquestionably right about one thing: Changing transmissibility is obviously something that could be very frightening, and that fear would be very....useful to the Powers That Be, should the.... opportunity arise.

Further this deponent sayeth not, other than that I would practice holding my breath, if I were y'all.