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In reply to the discussion: What We’re Afraid to Say About Ebola [View all]McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)...what if its lethal immune system suppression only works on some people, most of whom live in Africa and it turns out to be much less virulent on people in the rest of the world who happen to have inherited and retained Neanderthal HLA? Without the two week period of immune suppression, ebola is just a virus and it does not even kill all folks in Africa. Some clusters of people there are "immune" to the lethal effects.
....what if Russia engineered it in a lab and gave it to one of its allies and that is why is popped up during a war and why a Russian lab worker has been one of the fatalities? Maybe the Russians already have a cure. They owe us one.
...what if the US government has spent a bunch of our money investing in vaccines and drugs---as the news said a month ago---and now the patents are all being turned over to private companies which plan to make a killing off the investment made by US taxpayers? Oh, wait. That last one is not speculation. That is business as usual in the US.