Ebola vaccine to be manufactured by criminal drug company

[Ars Moriendi]

Ebola vaccine to be manufactured by criminal drug company with felony record; rushed to market with near-zero safety testing

http://www.naturalnews.com/046414_Ebola_vaccine_safety_testing_drug_company_p rofits.html##ixzz3APCtFUgD

(NaturalNews) While the world of conventional medicine lines up to profit from the Ebola panic, there is no mention anywhere in the mainstream media of the criminal corporation behind the Ebola vaccine.

GlaxoSmithKline, now being celebrated by the pro-pharma press, is the same company that also has a proven criminal record of bribing physicians and knowingly distributing misleading information about the safety of their drug products.

Just two years ago, GSK plead guilty to felony crimes in the United States and was forced to pay an historical $3 billion fine for committing those crimes. After paying the fine, GSK was then exempted from normal rules regarding criminal enterprise, allowing it to continue conducting business with the federal government.

"Global health care giant GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) agreed to plead guilty and to pay $3 billion to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company's unlawful promotion of certain prescription drugs, its failure to report certain safety data, and its civil liability for alleged false price reporting practices, the Justice Department announced today," says a U.S. Department of Justice press release.

It goes on to explain, "GSK agreed to plead guilty to a three-count criminal information, including two counts of introducing misbranded drugs, Paxil and Wellbutrin, into interstate commerce and one count of failing to report safety data about the drug Avandia to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."

As Natural News reported in 2012:


A roughly nine-year federal investigation has exposed GSK's rampant abuse of the law by illegally marketing drugs, forging drug safety data, bribing doctors to promote dangerous and expensive drugs, ripping off Medicare and Medicaid, and lying about the effectiveness and safety of drugs. And all this deception has generated tens of billions of dollars in profits for GSK over the years, while thousands of patients who used the drug products involved have suffered horrific side effects and even death.

Criminal drug company to spearhead Ebola vaccine with U.S. scientists

Now this same company that admitted committing multiple felony crimes is going to lead the development of the Ebola vaccine.

As CNBC reports: (1)

"A clinical trial of an experimental vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus is set to start shortly, according to British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, which is co-developing the product with U.S. scientists."

Vaccine to be "rushed through" with very little safety testing

We also know that the vaccine will not be tested for anything other than short-term side effects. This is all part of the "rush to market" for Big Pharma to profit from Ebola as quickly as possible.

As CNBC says:

A company spokeswoman said on Sunday that the trial should get underway "later this year", while GSK's partner the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said in a statement on its website it would start "as early as fall 2014", implying a potential September launch of testing.

A headline in the Daily Mail declares "World Health Organisation says vaccine could be 'rushed through' for 2015." (2)

That same story goes on to report, "the WHO said a potential vaccine for the Ebola virus is being tested on humans and could be ready for widespread use by early 2015."

Doing the math here, if the Ebola vaccine clinical trials start in September of 2014 and the vaccine is manufactured and distributed to the public by "early 2015," this leaves virtually zero time for observing vaccine side effects.

Manufacturing the vaccine in large quantities, after all, takes many months. If this vaccine is to be available to the public in early 2015, they will have to start manufacturing it as early as October 2014, roughly just one month after the vaccine trials begin.

Zero liability; total immunity for faulty products

Keep in mind that in the United States, vaccine manufacturers have zero liability for the damage and death caused by their products. Due to a literal Act of Congress, all vaccine manufacturers are able to abandon all safety testing and knowingly sell faulty, deadly products with zero risk of liability.

This was all set up by design to make sure vaccine manufacturers could enjoy record profits while having zero liability for producing faulty products that harm children and adults. This is the reason why mercury is still used in flu vaccines which are injected into children -- a fact which I have scientifically proven in the Natural News Forensic Food Labs using ICP-MS instrumentation.

This total immunity means there is no incentive for adequate safety testing of an Ebola vaccine. The company has the same liability (zero) whether they test the vaccine or not. Their goal is to SELL the vaccine, not to make sure it's safe and effective. Time spent on conducting rigorous clinical trials with long-term observations simply isn't part of the "Sell! Sell! Sell!" business plan of today's vaccine manufacturers. Their current business slogan? "Every pandemic is an opportunity for profit." And with blanket immunity from all product liability, who needs safety testing?

Vaccine manufacturers routinely rely on scientific fraud

Here's additional information you need to know about vaccine fraud, originally published in this article on Natural News:

According to two Merck scientists who filed a False Claims Act complaint in 2010 -- a complaint which has just now been unsealed -- vaccine manufacturer Merck knowingly falsified its mumps vaccine test data, spiked blood samples with animal antibodies, sold a vaccine that actually promoted mumps and measles outbreaks, and ripped off governments and consumers who bought the vaccine thinking it was "95% effective."

See that False Claims Act document at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/documents...

According to Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski, both former Merck virologists, the Merck company engaged in all the following behavior:

• Merck knowingly falsified its mumps vaccine test results to fabricate a "95% efficacy rate."

• In order to do this, Merck spiked the blood test with animal antibodies in order to artificially inflate the appearance of immune system antibodies. As reported in CourthouseNews.com:

Merck also added animal antibodies to blood samples to achieve more favorable test results, though it knew that the human immune system would never produce such antibodies, and that the antibodies created a laboratory testing scenario that "did not in any way correspond to, correlate with, or represent real life ... virus neutralization in vaccinated people," according to the complaint.

• Merck then used the falsified trial results to swindle the U.S. government out of "hundreds of millions of dollars for a vaccine that does not provide adequate immunization."

• Merck's vaccine fraud has actually contributed to the continuation of mumps across America, causing more children to become infected with mumps.

• Merck used its false claims of "95 percent effectiveness" to monopolize the vaccine market and eliminate possible competitors.

• The Merck vaccine fraud has been going on since the late 1990's, say the Merck virologists.

• Testing of Merck's vaccine was never done against "real-world" mumps viruses in the wild. Instead, test results were simply falsified to achieve the desired outcome.

• This entire fraud took place "with the knowledge, authority and approval of Merck's senior management."

• Merck scientists "witnessed firsthand the improper testing and data falsification in which Merck engaged to artificially inflate the vaccine's efficacy findings," according to court documents.

Sources for this article include:
(1) http://www.cnbc.com/id/101909486

(2) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2721...

(3) http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/July/12-c...

[Prisoner Of Ice]

It's funny to me that these are the guys that make the vaccines, but people think that vaccines are perfectly safe.

I have had to take dozens of vaccines, you never feel quite right afterwards and this is probably the real basis of "gulf war syndrome".

The idea isn't that "science is teh bad" as dumbfuck atheist liberal arts majors seem to think, the problem is companies like this are amoral and use sketchy means to produce them, shady methods of testing (and falsify results) and ingredients like cadaver parts and mercury...just because it's 2% cheaper to do things that way.

[Ars Moriendi]

On the meantime, a German virologist has sounded an alarm saying that the virus is beyond containing now and will kill approximately 5 million people in Africa.
Deutsche Welle originally published the piece, but has since then edited the title to make it sound less alarming.


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VIROLOGIST: ‘IT’S TOO LATE, EBOLA WILL KILL 5 MILLION’

By Paul Joseph Watson

Expert says virus will infect entire population of African countries

http://www.infowars.com/virologist-its-too-late-ebola-will-kill-5-million/

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Image Credits: European Commission / Flickr

A top German virologist has caused shockwaves by asserting that it’s too late to halt the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia and that five million people will die, noting that efforts should now be focused on stopping the transmission of the virus to other countries.

Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg told Germany’s Deutsche Welle that hope is all but lost for the inhabitants of Sierra Leone and Liberia and that the virus will only “burn itself out” when it has infected the entire population and killed five million people.

“The right time to get this epidemic under control in these countries has been missed,” said Schmidt-Chanasit. “That time was May and June. “Now it is too late.”


The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed over 2200 people, with Liberia and Sierra Leone accounting for over 1700 of those fatalities.

While calling for “massive help” from the international community to prevent Ebola appearing in other countries like Nigeria and Senegal, Schmidt-Chanasit warns that getting a grip on the epidemic in Liberia and Sierra Leone is a departure from reality.

German aid organization Welthungerhilfe blasted Schmidt-Chanasit for his comments, with Sierra Leone based coordinator Jochen Moninger labeling his statements, “dangerous and moreover, not correct.” However, Moninger acknowledged that Schmidt-Chanasit’s assessment may be accurate in the case of Liberia.

The World Health Organization refused to comment on Schmidt-Chanasit’s remarks.

Although Ebola continues to rage in five African countries, media coverage of the epidemic has waned, despite evidence that the virus has mutated.

As we reported last month, former FDA official Scott Gottlieb, M.D. warned that if the virus was to hit the United States, the CDC would enact emergency procedures which could lead to healthy Americans who show no symptoms of the diseased being forcibly detained for an indefinite period of time.

Scientists in Canada and Canada’s Public Health Agency have both acknowledged that the virus has likely gone airborne at least to a limited degree, while the CDC has urged airline staff to take steps to prevent the airborne spread of the virus, including giving suspected Ebola victims surgical masks as well as directing staff to “not use compressed air, which might spread infectious material through the air.”

UPDATE: After this article was published, the “5 million” quote from the original Deutsche Welle report was removed and the headline was changed. The original text can be read here. It is not known why Deutsche Welle changed the wording of the report without issuing a formal retraction.

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Paul Joseph Watson @PrisonPlanet
After my report, Deutsche Welle changed their headline and removed the '5 million dead' quote from their article.

[Dictator]

On the meantime, a German virologist has sounded an alarm saying that the virus is beyond containing now and will kill approximately 5 million people in Africa.
Deutsche Welle originally published the piece, but has since then edited the title to make it sound less alarming.


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VIROLOGIST: ‘IT’S TOO LATE, EBOLA WILL KILL 5 MILLION’

By Paul Joseph Watson

Expert says virus will infect entire population of African countries

http://www.infowars.com/virologist-its-too-late-ebola-will-kill-5-million/

http://hw.infowars.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/080414eboladeath.jpg
Image Credits: European Commission / Flickr

A top German virologist has caused shockwaves by asserting that it’s too late to halt the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia and that five million people will die, noting that efforts should now be focused on stopping the transmission of the virus to other countries.

Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg told Germany’s Deutsche Welle that hope is all but lost for the inhabitants of Sierra Leone and Liberia and that the virus will only “burn itself out” when it has infected the entire population and killed five million people.

“The right time to get this epidemic under control in these countries has been missed,” said Schmidt-Chanasit. “That time was May and June. “Now it is too late.”


The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed over 2200 people, with Liberia and Sierra Leone accounting for over 1700 of those fatalities.

While calling for “massive help” from the international community to prevent Ebola appearing in other countries like Nigeria and Senegal, Schmidt-Chanasit warns that getting a grip on the epidemic in Liberia and Sierra Leone is a departure from reality.

German aid organization Welthungerhilfe blasted Schmidt-Chanasit for his comments, with Sierra Leone based coordinator Jochen Moninger labeling his statements, “dangerous and moreover, not correct.” However, Moninger acknowledged that Schmidt-Chanasit’s assessment may be accurate in the case of Liberia.

The World Health Organization refused to comment on Schmidt-Chanasit’s remarks.

Although Ebola continues to rage in five African countries, media coverage of the epidemic has waned, despite evidence that the virus has mutated.

As we reported last month, former FDA official Scott Gottlieb, M.D. warned that if the virus was to hit the United States, the CDC would enact emergency procedures which could lead to healthy Americans who show no symptoms of the diseased being forcibly detained for an indefinite period of time.

Scientists in Canada and Canada’s Public Health Agency have both acknowledged that the virus has likely gone airborne at least to a limited degree, while the CDC has urged airline staff to take steps to prevent the airborne spread of the virus, including giving suspected Ebola victims surgical masks as well as directing staff to “not use compressed air, which might spread infectious material through the air.”

UPDATE: After this article was published, the “5 million” quote from the original Deutsche Welle report was removed and the headline was changed. The original text can be read here. It is not known why Deutsche Welle changed the wording of the report without issuing a formal retraction.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxVvfHHCIAEjUx1.jpg

Europeans had their own plagues before, let the Africans have theirs and evolve.

[Ars Moriendi]

Europeans had their own plagues before, let the Africans have theirs and evolve.

It's not so simple. The Ebola virus is not being handled correctly and the globalized nature of this era means a geographic containment isn't certain.

Check again this paragraph from the previous article. I've hyperlinked to it (forgot to do it before) new sources that you may find relevant:

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Although Ebola continues to rage in five African countries, media coverage of the epidemic has waned, despite evidence that the virus has mutated (http://www.dw.de/unstoppable-is-ebola-mutating-with-unknown-consequences-before-our-eyes/a-17912329).

As we reported last month (http://www.prisonplanet.com/former-fda-official-warns-of-spooky-scenarios-if-ebola-hits-u-s.html), former FDA official Scott Gottlieb, M.D. warned that if the virus was to hit the United States, the CDC would enact emergency procedures which could lead to healthy Americans who show no symptoms of the diseased being forcibly detained for an indefinite period of time.

Scientists in Canad (http://www.infowars.com/cdc-concerned-about-airborne-transmission-of-ebola-virus/)a and Canada’s Public Health Agency (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php) have both acknowledged that the virus has likely gone airborne at least to a limited degree, while the CDC has urged airline staff to take steps to prevent the airborne spread of the virus, including giving suspected Ebola victims surgical masks as well as directing staff to “not use compressed air, which might spread infectious material through the air.”

[Ars Moriendi]

More questions being asked about the development of the ebola vaccine, as the Pentagon is apparently involved as well.


It's funny to me that these are the guys that make the vaccines, but people think that vaccines are perfectly safe.

I have had to take dozens of vaccines, you never feel quite right afterwards and this is probably the real basis of "gulf war syndrome".


This piece seems to prove you were entirely right regarding Gulf War Syndrome:

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Is the U.S. Military Manufacturing Ebola Vaccines to Be Tested on its Soldiers to “Advance US Ability to Wage War”?

By Julie Lévesque

http://www.globalresearch.ca/is-the-u-s-military-manufacturing-ebola-vaccines-to-be-tested-on-its-soldiers-to-advance-us-ability-to-wage-war/5402847

At the beginning of August 2014 Bloomberg published an article about the “promising hopes” tobacco plants offer “for developing an effective treatment for the deadly Ebola virus”:


Tobacco plant-derived medicines, which are also being developed by a company whose investors include Philip Morris International Inc., are part of a handful of cutting edge plant-based treatments that are in the works for everything from pandemic flu to rabies using plants such as lettuce, carrots and even duckweed…

Another tobacco giant-backed company working on biotech drugs grown in tobacco plants is Medicago Inc. in Quebec City, which is owned by Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. and Philip Morris.

Medicago is working on testing a vaccine for pandemic influenza and has a production greenhouse facility in North Carolina, said Jean-Luc Martre, senior director for government affairs at Medicago. Medicago is planning a final stage trial of the pandemic flu vaccine for next year, he said in a telephone interview…

Medicago ‘‘is currently closely working with partners for the production of an Ebola antibody as well as other antibodies that are of interest for bio-defense,” he said in an e-mail. He would not disclose who the partners were. (Ebola Tobacco Drug Joins Duckweed in Plant War on Disease (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-06/ebola-drug-from-tobacco-part-of-promising-therapies.html), Bloomberg, August 6, 2014)

Could one of these partners be the Pentagon?

In 2009, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), part of the U.S. Department of Defense, launched a program called Blue Angel, which some have described as “DARPA’s vaccine manufacturing challenge” (http://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/features/featureblue-angel-darpas-vaccine-manufacturing-challenge-4171658/).

DARPA issued a press release in late July 2012 announcing they had “produced 10 million doses of an influenza vaccine in only one month’s time.”


In a press release out of the agency’s office this week, scientists with DARPA say they’ve reach an important step in being able to combat a flu pandemic that might someday decimate the Earth’s population. By working with the Medicago Inc. vaccine company, the Pentagon’s cutting edge research lab says that they’ve used a massive harvest of tobacco plants to help produce a plethora of flu-fighting vaccines.

Testing confirmed that a single dose of the H1N1 VLP influenza vaccine candidate induced protective levels of hemagglutinin antibodies in an animal model when combined with a standard aluminum adjuvant,” the agency writes, while still noting, though, that “The equivalent dose required to protect humans from natural disease can only be determined by future, prospective clinical trials.”

“Vaccinating susceptible populations during the initial stage of a pandemic is critical to containment,”Dr. Alan Magill, DARPA program manager, says in an official statement. “We’re looking at plant-based solutions to vaccine production as a more rapid and efficient alternative to the standard egg-based technologies, and the research is very promising.” (DARPA’s Blue Angel – Pentagon Prepares Millions of Vaccines Against Future Global Flu (http://www.globalresearch.ca/darpa-s-blue-angel-pentagon-prepares-millions-of-vaccines-against-future-global-flu/32141), RT, July 28, 2012)

This link between the U.S. military and pharmaceutical companies in the production of flu vaccines raises serious questions, especially since the H1N1 pandemic has been exposed as a multibillion dollar fraud (http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-scandal-exposed-advisors-received-kickbacks-from-h1n1-vaccine-manufacturers/19587?print=1) instigated by BigPharma and the World Health Organization (WHO).


A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers. (Mike Adams: WHO Scandal Exposed: Advisors Received Kickbacks From H1N1 Vaccine Manufacturers, Natural News, June 7, 2010)

In 2012, it was reported that Medicago “was funded through a $21 million Technology Investment Agreement with DARPA.” (RT, op. cit.)

After investing in medical research to manufacture vaccines, the U.S Department of Defense is now sending troops to deal with a pandemic in Africa. Is the military slowly replacing health authorities? If so, we can ask ourselves why. What is the real goal of this “humanitarian intervention”? Maybe the answer lies in the goal of DARPA’s Blue Angel program?

In an interview last February, Blue Angel’s programme manager Dr. John Julias said:


The Blue Angel programme was launched by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2009 as a direct response to the swine flu pandemic. The project’s goal is to improve the US’s response to pandemic influenza through accelerated vaccine production…

The Blue Angel programme was built around the concept that the Department of Defense requires a capability to rapidly respond to any pandemic or biological threat that jeopardises warfighter readiness. (Chris Lo, Blue Angel: DARPA’s vaccine manufacturing challenge, pharmaceutical-technology.com, February 10, 2014)

So the goal is “to improve the US’s response to pandemic influenza” but it is built on a concept which aims to protect “warfighters” from “any pandemic or biological threat”, not the population in general.

Is this concept in any way related to the fact that “warfighters” instead of “health workers” are now being sent into areas affected by the Ebola pandemic? To test a vaccine against a “biological threat that jeopardises warfighter readiness”? Are these 3000 troops Obama is sending to Liberia being used as guinea pigs? There are precedent in this regard. This would not be the first time.

Last February RT reported:


A federal judge has ruled the United States Army must quickly inform veterans of any potentially harmful health effects stemming from the secret medical and drug experiments conducted on them during the Cold War.

According to a report by Courthouse News wire service, the ruling comes in favor of 7,800 soldiers claiming to have been involved in the experiments. After recruiting Nazi scientists to help through a program called “Project Paperclip,” the Army and CIA administered between 250 and 400 kinds of drugs to the soldiers in an attempt to advance US ability to wage war. (Judge sides with US servicemen used as guinea pigs in terrifying Cold War experiment (http://rt.com/usa/army-servicemen-cold-war-experiment-107/), RT, Frebruary 7, 2014)

During the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) experimental vaccines were also given to soldiers and several studies have concluded that the Gulf-War Syndrome was linked to vaccinations:


Gulf-War Syndrome (GWS) refers to a collection of symptoms in soldiers who served in the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991), or Gulf War 1. These symptoms include rash, severe fatigue, muscle and joint pain, headache, irritability, depression, unrefreshing sleep, gastrointestinal and respiratory disorders and neurological cognitive defects.

Apart from being exposed to a wide range of environmental hazards and toxic chemicals, US and UK Gulf War I veterans (GW1Vs) were also given large numbers of vaccines. In total, the US GW1Vs received, at least, 17 different vaccines [1] including live vaccines (polio and yellow fever as well as experimental vaccines that had not been approved (anthrax, botulinum toxoid) and were of doubtful efficacy [2]. In the UK, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has declared only 10 vaccines given, but records exist to show that some troops received a greater number [3]. Among them were two experimental vaccines, anthrax with pertussis as an adjuvant (shown in 1990 to cause serious deconditioning in mice) [4], and plague, given to UK but not USA troops [1]. The manufacturers of pertussis were not advised of the unlicensed use on GW1Vs [1,4].

Vaccine overload was identified as a significant factor in GWS…

These findings are consistent with those from other studies. A link between vaccinations and illness has been found among GW1Vs from UK and Canada [6]. (Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Malcolm Hooper Vaccines, Gulf-War Syndrome & Bio-defence (http://www.i-sis.org.uk/VGWS.php))

The stated goal enunciated by Obama of the U.S. soldiers’ mission in Liberia is to build medical centers and train health workers to operate them.

The National Institutes of Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has already developed an Ebola vaccine. In early September GlaxoSmithKline said it planned to begin manufacturing up to 10,000 doses of it, even though scientists had not yet decided if “the initial vaccine was promising enough” and ”safety studies cannot guarantee that experimental vaccines really work in an outbreak.” (Associated Press, Ebola vaccine research moving fast, (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebola-vaccine-research-moving-fast/) CBSNews, September 8, 2014)

It is worth noting in this regard that several health hazards were in fact caused by the H1N1 vaccine. GlaxoSmithKline also recently pleaded guilty and paid “$3 billion to resolve fraud allegations and failure to report safety data”. (GlaxoSmithKline to Plead Guilty and Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Fraud Allegations and Failure to Report Safety Data (http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/glaxosmithkline-plead-guilty-and-pay-3-billion-resolve-fraud-allegations-and-failure-report), Department of Justice, July 2, 2014)

[Prisoner Of Ice]

Great post Ars. I don't want to sound like 'conspiracy nut' but I would not be surprised if this ebola outbreak was staged, especially coming out at such a coincidental time.

When you realize how many billions of dollars they can suck out of the government this becomes less fantastical of a hypothesis.

I had a thread about a cdc whistleblower who claimed that they falsified data at the CDC to show vaccines are harmless. Unfortunately it's all secondhand so we don't really know for sure.

[Ars Moriendi]

Great post Ars. I don't want to sound like 'conspiracy nut' but I would not be surprised if this ebola outbreak was staged, especially coming out at such a coincidental time.

When you realize how many billions of dollars they can suck out of the government this becomes less fantastical of a hypothesis.

I had a thread about a cdc whistleblower who claimed that they falsified data at the CDC to show vaccines are harmless. Unfortunately it's all secondhand so we don't really know for sure.

Oh, I don't think it's that farfetched to be honest, someone leaked to Global Research the patent on the latest brand of the Ebola virus. It was certified in 2009, and surprise, surprise, the owner of the patent is none other than the US government
I didn't link the whole patent because it's extremely technical and long (deals with all the specific patterns of the virus), but just in case you'd like to take a look, I found it after a while of looking around:

Human Ebola Virus Species and Compositions and Methods Thereof (http://www.google.com/patents/US20120251502)

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Never fear being called a conspiracy nut. It's always better to be a bit imaginative and be disproved afterwards, rather than be a coward who only abides by what is accepted and filtered by others (whom we can't trust to begin with).

[Bloodnigger]

I had a thread about a cdc whistleblower who claimed that they falsified data at the CDC to show vaccines are harmless. Unfortunately it's all secondhand so we don't really know for sure.

No need to heap any conspiracies on vaccines, they do the job well themselves.

Anyone forgot the '90s vaccine fraud? Won't even mention the "vaccines" given to Nigeria by 2003.

Now libruls(aka gubment shills) want to jab newborns (http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/05/wonder-jab-could-save-2million-infant-children-every-year-3525929/) Afterall, it's safe, see, scienmajic tells us it's even good for babes at the breast.

While they don't even do shit most of the time. (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_FLU_VACCINE?SITE=NVLAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)

Add to that all the shit that Obamacare entails and the horror stories you hear about socialized medicine sound like good times gone by too fast.

xD And the crowning irony is this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/science/cdc-closes-anthrax-and-flu-labs-after-accidents.html?_r=0
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/09/16/drug-resistant-superbugs-deemed-urgent-threats-cdc-says/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn

These people are the extremely dangerous combination of malicious and incompetent. I won't be surprised if any of this backfires and you have this going airborne for real faster than a horde of niggers over the Mellila fence.

EDIT: TAKE VACCINES SO THAT THE JAB-RESISTANT BUG GETS YOU INSTEAD OF THE FLU xD

[Prisoner Of Ice]

No need to heap any conspiracies on vaccines, they do the job well themselves.

Anyone forgot the '90s vaccine fraud? Won't even mention the "vaccines" given to Nigeria by 2003.

Now libruls(aka gubment shills) want to jab newborns (http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/05/wonder-jab-could-save-2million-infant-children-every-year-3525929/) Afterall, it's safe, see, scienmajic tells us it's even good for babes at the breast.

While they don't even do shit most of the time. (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_FLU_VACCINE?SITE=NVLAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)

Add to that all the shit that Obamacare entails and the horror stories you hear about socialized medicine sound like good times gone by too fast.

xD And the crowning irony is this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/science/cdc-closes-anthrax-and-flu-labs-after-accidents.html?_r=0
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/09/16/drug-resistant-superbugs-deemed-urgent-threats-cdc-says/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn

These people are the extremely dangerous combination of malicious and incompetent. I won't be surprised if any of this backfires and you have this going airborne for real faster than a horde of niggers over the Mellila fence.

EDIT: TAKE VACCINES SO THAT THE JAB-RESISTANT BUG GETS YOU INSTEAD OF THE FLU xD

Shit like that is totally unnecessary, too. Whooping cough? Give me a fucking break. The only reason this is coming back even a little bit is due to the retarded obama fucks bringing in central american and somali kids. It's pretty simple to stop this bullshit. That's what borders are for.

[Ars Moriendi]

Let's learn a bit more about Washington's play with this disease.

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Ebola Outbreak: The Latest U.S. Government Lies

By Jason Kissner

http://www.globalresearch.ca/ebola-outbreak-the-latest-u-s-government-lies/5405584

We begin with the Public Health Agency of Canada, which once (as recently as August 6) stated on its website that:

“In the laboratory, infection through small-particle aerosols has been demonstrated in primates, and airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected, although it has not yet been conclusively demonstrated (1, 6, 13). The importance of this route of transmission is not clear. Poor hygienic conditions can aid the spread of the virus.”

No more; the “airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected” language has been cleansed (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php):


“In laboratory settings, non-human primates exposed to aerosolized ebolavirus from pigs have become infected, however, airborne transmission has not been demonstrated between non-human primates

Footnote1 Footnote10 Footnote15 Footnote44 Footnote45.

Viral shedding has been observed in nasopharyngeal secretions and rectal swabs of pigs following experimental inoculation.”

Are we to suppose that very recent and ground-breaking research was conducted that indicated there is no longer reason to “strongly suspect” that airborne Ebola contagion occurs? Surely, the research was done three weeks ago, and we only need to wait another couple of days until the study is released for public consumption. Feel better now?

If not, perhaps the 9/30 words of the Centers for Disease Control accompanying the Dallas Ebola case will provide some solace. Or, perhaps those words just contain another pack of U.S. Government lies. Let’s investigate.

Before addressing the CDC’s Statement, (http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/s930-ebola-confirmed-case.html) we should articulate some pivotal Ebola Outbreak facts we’re apparently not supposed to mention or even think about, since they’ve been buried by the Government/MSM complex. So, consider this from an earlier Global Research contribution (http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ebola-outbreak-u-s-sponsored-bioterror/5396176) by this author, drawn from a 2014 New England Journal of Medicine article (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1404505):


“Phylogenetic analysis of the full-length sequences established a separate clade for the Guinean EBOV strain in sister relationship with other known EBOV strains. This suggests that the EBOV strain from Guinea has evolved in parallel with the strains from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon from a recent ancestor and has not been introduced from the latter countries into Guinea. Potential reservoirs of EBOV, fruit bats of the species Hypsignathusmonstrosus, Epomopsfranqueti, & Myonycteristorquata, are present in large parts of West Africa.18 It is possible that EBOV has circulated undetected in this region for some time. The emergence of the virus in Guinea highlights the risk of EBOV outbreaks in the whole West African subregion…

The high degree of similarity among the 15 partial L gene sequences, along with the three full-length sequences and the epidemiologic links between the cases, suggest a single introduction of the virus into the human population. This introduction seems to have happened in early December 2013 or even before.”

The take-home message is that we now confront a brand spanking new genetic variant of Ebola. Furthermore, we still have no idea at all how the “single introduction of the virus in the human population” of West Africa occurred. And, the current Ebola outbreak appears to be orders of magnitude more contagious than previous outbreaks. It also presents with a fatality count that far exceeds all previous outbreaks combined. But it’s certainly not airborne, so who cares about nit-picking details such as these!

In spite of the above facts, we are supposed to believe that all questions regarding the current Ebola outbreak can be answered with exclusive reference to what has occurred in connection with previously encountered—in terms of genetic composition—and known—in terms of initial outbreak source—Ebola episodes.

Here are a couple of questions. When was the last time an Ebola outbreak coincided with instructions to U.S. funeral homes on how to “handle the remains of Ebola patients”? (http://www.cbs46.com/story/26657838/cdc-issues-ebola-guidelines-for-us-funeral-homes) Not to worry, since Alysia English, Executive Director of the Georgia Funeral Homes Association, is quoted (click preceding link) as saying “If you were in the middle of a flood or gas leak, that’s not the time to figure out how to turn it off. You want to know all of that in advance. This is no different.” So it’s just about being prepared, you see. Of course, nothing resembling this sort of preparation has ever transpired alongside any other Ebola outbreak in world history, so what gives now?

“Oh, it’s because we now have that Ebola case in Dallas.” True, but this response suffers from two fatal defects. First, we’re not supposed to worry about one tiny case as long as it’s in America, right, since according to the CDC on 9/30 (http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/s930-ebola-confirmed-case.html):


…there’s all the difference in the world between the U.S. and parts of Africa where Ebola is spreading. The United States has a strong health care system and public health professionals who will make sure this case does not threaten our communities,” said CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. “While it is not impossible that there could be additional cases associated with this patient in the coming weeks, I have no doubt that we will contain this.”

If the U.S.’ strong health care system (which is apparently far superior to hazmat suits) is so effective at containment, what explains the funeral home preparations again? If U.S. containment procedures are so superb and the virus is no more contagious than before, what difference does it make whether the case is in Dallas, Texas or Sierra Leone? To be sure, maybe the answers to these questions are simple, and it’s just about corrupt money and the like.

However, the corrupted money explanation isn’t very plausible (at least on its own) either, for the very simple, and extremely disturbing, reason that the “funeral home preparations” article was first published on 9/29 at 3:36 PM PST (http://www.cbs46.com/story/26657838/cdc-issues-ebola-guidelines-for-us-funeral-homes)—a day before the Dallas case was confirmed positive. Of course, this makes the following language at the very head of the article all the more eerie:


“CBS46 News has confirmed the Centers for Disease Control has issued guidelines to U.S. funeral homes on how to handle the remains of Ebola patients. If the outbreak of the potentially deadly virus is in West Africa, why are funeral homes in America being given guidelines?”

If the rejoinder is that “well, people thought the Dallas case might turn out positive”, the reply must be that there were several other cases, in places like Sacramento and New York, that might have turned out positive, but resulted in neither funeral home preparations nor a rash of CDC “Ebola Prevention” tip (http://news92fm.com/482666/ebola-virus-symptoms-and-prevention-tips/)s (wash those hands, since they’re running low on hazmat suits!)

Hopefully, you are in the mood for two more big CDC lies, because they really are quite important. From the 9/30 CDC statement: “People are not contagious after exposure unless they develop symptoms.” This is a lie for three basic reasons. First, the studies that inform the CDC’s professed certainty on this issue relied upon analyses of previous outbreaks of then-known known Ebola variants. The current strain, as stated here early on, is novel—genetically as well as geographically. Second, the distinction between “incubation” and “visible symptoms” is a continuum, not discrete in nature; a few droplets might not be rain, but they’re not indicative of fully clear skies either—so the boundary drawn by the CDC is, like nearly everything else the U.S. government does, arbitrary. Third, as even rank amateurs at statistics know, previous outbreaks have consisted of too few cases to confidently rule out small but consequential probabilities of asymptomatic transmission—completely leaving aside the fact that we have a new genetic variant of Ebola to deal with.

The last major CDC lie mentioned in this article is the claim, repeated ad nauseam, that “infrastructure shortcomings” and the like is wholly sufficient to explain the exponential increase in the number of cases presented by the current outbreak. We should believe that only when presented with well-designed multivariate contagion models that properly incorporate information about Ebola outbreaks and generate findings that socioeconomic differences as between West Africa and other regions of Africa (such as Zaire) alone can fully explain observed differences associated with the current outbreak. It seems to this author that we should strongly doubt that the current contagion can be fully explained without at some point invoking features of the novel genetic strain.


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Dr. Jason Kissner is Associate Professor of Criminology at California State University.

Dr. Kissner’s research on gangs and self-control has appeared in academic journals. His current empirical research interests include active shootings.
You can reach him at crimprof2010[at]hotmail.com

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In spite of such blatant lies and lack of transparancey, still 2 out of 5 people in the United States is under the impression that nothing bad will happen, and that the American government will contain any ebola outbreak without much trouble.

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40 PERCENT OF AMERICANS THINK GOVERNMENT WILL SAVE THEM FROM EBOLA

Look no further than the response to Hurricane Katrina

http://www.infowars.com/40-percent-of-americans-think-government-will-save-them-from-ebola/

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Is the U.S. prepared for an Ebola outbreak? New <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews">@CBSNews</a> poll shows 54% say no. <a href="http://t.co/oTvOZ8fP8h">pic.twitter.com/oTvOZ8fP8h</a></p>
<p>— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/520183169816231936">October 9, 2014</a></p></blockquote>

If you want to gauge how government will respond to the Ebola epidemic, look no further than the response to Hurricane Katrina.

The media likes to say massive and unprecedented government negligence during Katrina was the fault of “policy failures.”

The Department of Homeland Security, according to Robert Block in Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security (http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=svF2SAQ_MggC&oi=fnd&pg=PR13&dq=katrina+failure+government&ots=7GsSYe4fBH&sig=i6Vdn487cQxEiIbUml6NxqPgF5I#v=onepage&q=katrina failure government&f=false), was purportedly designed as a response to terrorism, not natural disaster.

It can be argued, however, that the DHS is in effect a massive boondoggle, yet another specialty of government – establishing lumbering bureaucracies designed to enrich corporate partners and further governmental agendas, in the case of DHS establishing a domestic secret police (there is ample evidence (http://www.justiceonline.org/our-work/ows-foia.html), primarily after the fall of a misguided Occupy movement, that the DHS, in collaboration with the FBI and the CIA, routinely work to undermine any serious political challenge to the establishment).

In the aftermath of Katrina, government excelled at confiscating legal firearms (http://www.infowars.com/nra-the-untold-story-of-gun-confiscation-after-katrina/), shooting unarmed civilians (http://www.infowars.com/police-shot-unarmed-civilians-after-katrina-officer-testifies/), and preventing firefighters and rescue workers from aiding victims. (http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/fema_still_blocking_police_firefighters_entering.h tm)

Like DHS, FEMA was not established to help Americans during hurricanes, tornadoes and floods, but as a principal vehicle for martial law. “FEMA could not respond immediately to the Hurricane Katrina disaster — humanitarian efforts were no longer part of its job description under the Department of Homeland Security,” writes Allen Roland (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ROL20060820&articleId=3010).

FEMA, in fact, worked to make sure victims of Katrina did not get assistance.

“Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts has agreed that FEMA has deliberately withheld aid, and cut emergency communication lines, and automatically made the crisis look worse in order to empower the image of a police state emerging to ‘save the day’. He even insinuated that the shoot to kill policy was part of the overall operation in order get an awful precedence set to aid the military industrial complex takeover of America,” writes Steve Watson (http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/060905FEMA.htm).

The failure of government, or rather evidence of its real agenda, was demonstrated during Katrina, and yet millions of Americans persistently believe government will help them during the latest crisis, one that will likely overshadow Katrina and every other natural disaster.

Morgan Brittany (http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/what-if-the-conspiracy-theories-are-true/) believes the government may have orchestrated the Ebola crisis so it can institute martial law.

“My fear is that this has all been orchestrated from the very beginning. Who knows? Maybe the current administration needs this to happen so martial law can be declared, guns can be seized and the populace can be controlled. Once that happens … game over,” she wrote for WND earlier this week.

Whether or not the feds orchestrated the Ebola crisis, they will certainly use it to enhance and strengthen their power over the American people. The federal government will portray itself as a savior and this false image will be dutifully echoed by the propaganda media.

Considering the leverage the corporate media has over the public despite inroads made by alternative and truth media, it is not surprising 40 percent of Americans, at least according to a corporate poll, actually believe the government can save them.

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And to substantiate such a claim, a number of sites have begun reporting the establishment of quarantine in different States, with Texas and Connecticut starting:

Texas Ebola Outbreak Results in Forced Quarantine, Blood Draws Or Arrest
by Christina Sarich

http://naturalsociety.com/texas-ebola-outbreak-results-forced-quarantine-blood-draws-arrest/

The United States has taken action in light of the recent Ebola outbreak in Dallas, appearing to want to keep the issue isolated. The U.S. government has forced quarantine and blood draws from the family in Dallas where a member was found to have the virus. They face arrest if they don’t comply (http://www.naturalnews.com/047104_Ebola_outbreak_quarantine_forced_blood_draw s.html).

My question is – if the government was so keen on keeping this ‘virus’ (biowarfare) in control, why didn’t they restrict travel from countries where it is running rampant? Why have they not informed hospitals of the possible dangers? (http://naturalsociety.com/nurses-unprepared-handle-ebola-patients/) Why was this man, who sought medical attention, turned loose to possibly contaminate hundreds more people (http://news.yahoo.com/home-where-ebola-patient-stayed-disinfected-061137265.html) before the government then decided to use militia tactics for lock down?

Government-mandated medical procedures of any kind is a very slippery slope to go sliding down. If they will do this to a family in Dallas, they will do it to anyone ‘suspected’ of having Ebola.


“The state of Texas and Dallas County health officials have ordered four close family members of a Dallas Ebola patient to stay home and not have visitors to prevent spreading the deadly disease,” the Dallas affiliate of CBS reported (http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/02/four-family-members-of-ebola-patient-under-court-ordered-quarantine/). “If ignored, a violation could result in criminal charges.”

Would you be ready to face a 21-day forced quarantine, as this family is being asked to comply with? Do you have enough food, water, and other necessities to stay in your own home as if it were a prison? How about being ordered to give blood on command? How does that sit with you?

According to Texas state authorities, “The family members must also be available to provide blood samples, agree to any testing by public health officials, and immediately report any symptoms to Dallas County Health and Human Services,” reports CBS News.

If this outbreak spreads to other cities – it would be very easy for our government to do exactly what they did after 911 – take away all of our rights. Will you let them?

One family may not seem like a big deal –and of course, other Dallas residents don’t want to contract Ebola, but what happens if there are suddenly 500 cases? Does that mean the government will force everyone to stay inside for weeks at a time – an entire city quarantined?

What then – when there aren’t enough police or ‘authorities’ to monitor those who are infected. The word FEMA (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/FEMA_concentration_camps) comes to mind for some, even though they will likely be called “Community Health Centers” or something lovely sounding.

The same thing has already happened in Liberia. (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-03/during-ebola-pandemic-all-your-rights-would-essentially-be-meaningless)

I suggest preparing in advance, and just being prepared for the worst-case scenario, and pray for the best case. Have enough water and freeze-dried or storable health foods (http://naturalsociety.com/emergency-food-organic/) for 21 days minimum and learn about how to defend your health during a pandemic – (whether real or created)


Connecticut grants state health commissioner power to quarantine anyone suspected of Ebola
http://www.naturalnews.com/047202_Ebola_quarantine_Connecticut.html##ixzz3Fo7 QEXsD

Friday, October 10, 2014 by: J. D. Heyes

While Natural News has sounded the alarm over the potential spread of Ebola in the U.S. beyond its current boundaries in Dallas, Texas, so far that hasn’t happened. Americans are being reassured by federal and state public health officials that the deadly virus will be contained in Texas, and that there is little reason to be concerned it won’t be. We’ll see how that turns out.

But in the meantime, the authoritarians in governments all across the country have begun to use fear about the spread of the virus as a mechanism for encroaching on our freedom; what recently occurred in the East Coast state of Connecticut, one of our 13 original colonies, is a case in point.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy just signed a gubernatorial executive order granting the state’s public health commission the power to quarantine anyone who she thinks could have been exposed to the Ebola virus.

The governor, in making his announcement, said the order was merely cautionary in nature and was aimed at ensuring that the state has a plan to deal with any suspected cases of the virus.

“The order declares a public health emergency, giving Commissioner Jewel Mullen the authority to issue quarantine orders,” The Associated Press reported. “That authority usually rests with local public health directors.”

The AP went on to report that Mullen does not believe anyone in her state is either infected or even at risk of infection — which makes the issuance of the order by Malloy even more puzzling. Is the state merely trying to get ahead of the virus, or is this going to be a trend among governors and health officials (http://www.naturalnews.com/health.html) in more states — to usurp constitutional protections using the virus as a tool?

News of Connecticut’s order comes on the heels of the death of Thomas Duncan, the United States’ first Ebola (http://www.naturalnews.com/Ebola.html) patient, at a hospital in Dallas; there, health officials have quarantined his family and say they are keeping an eye on dozens more who may eventually have to be quarantined as well if they begin showing signs of infection.

Understand that we support state and federal officials whose aim is to prevent the Ebola virus from spreading to the remainder of the population. There is some concern, however, that officials may try to use fear about the virus to their advantage.

It’s not so far-fetched. Rahm Emanuel, at the time President-elect Obama’s chief of staff, said during a roundtable forum (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXwjHKEejFc) hosted by The Wall Street Journal:


You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Emanuel is currently the mayor of one of America’s largest cities — Chicago — and though he later tried to walk back those comments, he and Obama certainly did use the financial crisis they inherited to force through several pieces of legislation including the disastrous Obamacare and a $1 trillion stimulus package that inflated the national debt while doing little to spur the economy.

What’s that got to do with Ebola? Nothing — and everything. Emanuel’s now-legendary quote shows you the mindset of those who seek to rule over us: ruling rather than representing.

Such fear is what led a President Lincoln to suspend habeas corpus during the Civil War and jail journalists who sympathized with the South; it is what led President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to intern Japanese-Americans during World War II; and it is what has led the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security to develop plans for mass detentions of American citizens during “an emergency,” under provisions of plans known as REX 84 — short for Readiness Exercise (http://www.globalresearch.ca/rex-84-fema-s-blueprint-for-martial-law-in-america/3010). As reported by Global Research:


Through Rex-84 an undisclosed number of concentration camps were set in operation throughout the United States, for internment of dissidents and others potentially harmful to the state.

The Rex 84 Program was originally established on the reasoning that if a “mass exodus” of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA.

Existence of the Rex 84 plan was first revealed during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987….

The old axiom that “power corrupts” applies to American politics just the same as it does to any other political system devised and implemented by Man.

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The World Health Organization has released a statement, arguing that the rate of contagion of ebola is actually 10 times more significant than what they had previously anticipated.
Any sort of effective vaccine will not be ready for months to come.


World Health Organization says Ebola cases could reach 10,000 per week
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/15/ebol-o15.html

By Andre Damon
15 October 2014

The number of new Ebola cases in Africa could grow as high as 10,000 per week, ten times higher than earlier estimates, according to projections the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Tuesday.

Dr. Bruce Aylward, who heads the WHO response to the crisis, said the public health organization now estimates the mortality rate in the countries affected by the outbreak—Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea—to be around 70 percent. Even though earlier statistics had shown a survival rate of around fifty percent, the UN-affiliated organization is now recording “at best 30 percent survival,” he said.

Aylward noted that the impact of the disease in the capitals of the three worst affected countries continue to increase. “Any sense that the great effort that’s been kicked off the last couple of months is already starting to see an impact, that would be really, really premature,” he warned.

Aylward called for the implementation of a so-called 70-70-60 plan, in which 70 percent of new cases would be isolated, and 70 percent of bodies would be safely buried, within 60 days.

According to the latest figures from the WHO there have been 8,914 cases of Ebola and 4,447 deaths from the disease. But those figures may underestimate the extent of the crisis, Aylward said, because many cases are not reported.

Aylward’s statements were followed by the announcement by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that it would devote additional resources to combat the spread of the disease. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, said in a news conference Monday that the US is creating a rapid-response team to assist hospitals “within hours” of any reported infections.

Frieden admitted the inadequacy of the federal agency’s response to the case of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died in Texas on October 8. He said a critical-care nurse, Nina Pham, might not have been infected if a team had been sent to Dallas immediately after Duncan was diagnosed. “I wish we had put a team like this on the ground the day the first patient was diagnosed,” Frieden said, “but we will do that from today onward with any case in the US.”
Frieden’s acknowledgement follows the statements Monday by WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan, who called the ongoing epidemic “unquestionably the most severe acute public health emergency in modern times.”

Noting that, “Ebola emerged nearly 40 years ago,” she asked rhetorically, “Why are clinicians still empty-handed, with no vaccines and no cure?” Answering her own question, she said, “A profit-driven industry does not invest in products for markets that cannot pay.”

The refusal of the pharmaceutical giants to develop a vaccine has led to the deaths of thousands in the former colonial countries of West Africa. The danger that this deadly disease could spread to the United States and other developed countries has been increased by the systematic and ongoing cuts to scientific research and public health systems, which can only be characterized as criminally negligent.

Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), told the Huffington Post that the US would likely have already developed a vaccine for Ebola if budget cuts had not devastated the country’s research capacities.

“NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It’s not like we suddenly woke up and thought, ‘Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here,’” Collins said.

“Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would’ve gone through clinical trials and would have been ready.”

In addition to slowing down the development of an Ebola vaccine, Collins added that budget cuts have significantly impacted the development of therapeutic treatments, which he said, “were on a slower track than would’ve been ideal, or that would have happened if we had been on a stable research support trajectory.” He added, “We would have been a year or two ahead of where we are, which would have made all the difference.”

Collins added that, despite the Ebola crisis, no additional money had been allocated to the NIH. Collins said that the NIH was forced to “take dollars that would’ve gone to something else...and redirect them to this.”

He said that an Ebola vaccine is already under development, but that the best-case scenario would be for clinical trials to start in December, and it would not be known whether the drug was effective until February or March.

He likewise said that the Ebola treatment known as ZMapp would not be available in significant doses this year because of budget cuts. “Had it not been for other shortages, we might very well by now know that it works and have a large stock of it,” he added.

As a result of the so-called sequester budget cuts implemented last year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) had their budgets slashed by 5.1 and 2 percent respectively.

Between 2010 and 2014, the NIH’s budget has been cut by $446 million, while discretionary funding for the CDC was cut by $585 million during the same period, Scientific American reported this week. Funding for the CDC’s public health preparedness and response programs has been reduced by more than $1 billion since 2002. As a result of these cuts, over 45,700 jobs have been cut from state and local health departments since 2008.

Democratic Party supporters have been quick to blame Republicans for these cuts. However, Obama’s 2015 budget proposal also calls for significant cuts to health care spending, together with major cutbacks to other social services.

The ongoing Ebola crisis stands as a scathing indictment of the system of profit-driven medicine and the destruction of public health systems in the US and other countries in the name of slashing taxes for and boosting the profits of the major corporations and the wealthy.