Does West Africa's Ebola Outbreak Result From An Accident Or A Crime Against Humanity?

Having trawled through a number of alternative news websites - such as www.nomorefalsenews.com  and www.godlikeproductions.com - for their take on the outbreak of the deadly Ebola fever in West Africa, one could not help but wonder what exactly was the nexus linking the three countries at the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The west African Ebola fever outbreak narrative from alternative news sources couldn't be more different from that of the world' s mainstream media. They are world's apart. The mainstream media assigns the cause of Ebola to eating bats and other types of bush meat, whiles the alternative media mostly believes that the Ebola fever outbreak results from a programme of the weaponisation of viruses for biowarfare purposes.

According to a number of news sources that the cynics amongst us would attach the label "conspiracy-theorist-websites", it turns out that Tulane University, the New Orleans-based researchers running the Ebola fever diagnostic testing and treatment centre at Sierra Leone's  Kanema Government Hospital, and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Dieseases, which is based in Fort Detrick, somehow succeeded in releasing a weaponised bio-engineered  airborne hybrid  Ebola/Lassa fever virus in Sierra Leone.

 Could that perhaps be the reason why tests being carried out by Tulane University were halted by the government of Sierra Leone, when the Ebola fever outbreak began spreading, one wonders? Could that also be the reason why the US National Institutes of Health wrote - on 30 July, 2014 - to tell Tulane University that its contract for a five-year US$15 million  Ebola fever/Lassa fever research project in Kanema Government Hospital, would not be renewed when it expires in November 2014, citing federal procurement ethical issues?

The Ebola Fever/Lassa fever research that Tulane University was carrying out for ASAMRIID, had, according to www.nomorefalsenews.com, the announced purpose - amongst others - of defending against the future use of fever-viruses. Could it be the case that the research was a cover for weaponising the Ebola hybrid virus as an offensive biowarfare weapon?

 According to www.godlikeproductions.com, the primary Ebola fever strain spreading in west Africa was bio-engineered by Tulane University and USAMRIID. Apparently a known Ebola strain from Central Africa was used as a base to become a hybrid respiratory illness (a combination Ebola virus and Lassa hemorrhagic fever weapon used by Tulane University and USAMRIID in Fort Derrick), turning it into a variant of the original strain found in Congo in central Africa.

That hybridisation  optimised aerosol human-to-human transmission (as well as induced respiratory infection - which is absent in the standard Ebola fever virus infection; extending (in two phases) the incubation period (to better increase its spread/threat potential) and gave it slightly toned down virility (to give it the ideal virility  and ideal mortality rate (of 40%)).

The question then is: since it is obvious that a secret testing and research programme that has clearly gone wrong, did not have the informed consent of the people in the areas it was being carried out in, should those innocent individuals used as human guinea pigs in  Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, not hold the Tulane University and the USAMRIID  responsible for what are in effect egregious crimes against humanity? And should those who sanctioned this unspeakable and abominable attempt to carry out genocide in west Africa not be tried in the U.S. for this terrible human tragedy?

 Is history repeating itself, one wonders? Has the U.S. government not learnt any lessons from the disgraceful and unethical 1932-1972 Tuskegee University research scandal - in which 600 African-American sharecroppers were tricked into believing that they were being treated for "bad blood" free of charge when in fact they were being denied treatment in a secret research trial - which ought to have ended in 1945 when penicillin was being mass-produced and widely acknowledged as a cure for syphilis - in order to enable researchers to study the long-term effect of syphilis?

 Incidentally, all that came to light in 1972 when a whistleblower blew the lid on what was an odious and reprehensible crime. And the selfsame deception occurred in Guatamala too between 1945 and 1948. There, prostitutes, soldiers, prisoners and mental hospital patients, were also secretly infected with syphilis, and denied treatment. A dreadful crime for which the U.S government later apologised.

 Yet another example of ethical corner-cutting (this time by a private U.S. corporation) is the 1996 Pfizer Trovan meningitis trial scandal in northern Nigeria - in which Pfizer conducted tests on 200 children without obtaining proper consent from their legal guardians. Like today's  Ebola test  scandal in Sierra Leone, tests continued in the fear-filled and chaotic conditions of a third world healthcare facility, in the midst of an outbreak of a dangerous and infectious disease. Fortunately for the victim,  in the end justice prevailed: years later Pfizer made an out of court settlement and paid out US$75 million to the families of the 200 Nigerian children.

If the conspiracy-theorist-websites are right in what they say, then in  light of all the above, it would be unconsionable were the U.S. government to refuse to supply the ZMapp serum free of charge to all the west African nations where the Ebola fever outbreak has occured, when the manufacturers finally succeed in producing more of the experimental drug which has been given to Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantley. Both of them contracted Ebola fever in Liberia and were subsequently evecuated to the U.S. to receive treatment - where they are reported to be steadily improving in health.

It is the least the U.S. government could do under the circumstances - an arm of it having once again played the very same dastardly trick  played in the secret Tuskegee University and Guatamala syphilis research scandals. It would appear that the same trick has been played on the many victims of the Ebola fever outbreak in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, too.

When available in sufficient quantities, the US government cannot morally justify denying the victims of the west African Ebola fever outbreak access to the ZMapp experimental drug - that seems to have helped Dr. Brantley and Miss Writebol to survive an Ebola fever infection. Hopefully,  the U.S. government will do the honourable thing this time round. And one also hopes that the American government will ensure that whenever other effective drugs are subsequently developed and approved by the  FDA, they will be made available to all the west African nations in which Ebola fever is detected.

However, were it to fail to do so, then no matter the spin the Western mainstream media puts on it, the west African Ebola fever outbreak will come to be regarded by many around the globe, as the terrible outcome of  a carefully planned crime against humanity, which ought to be declared as such by the United Nations and the African Union - and all those who planned it made to pay for it. A word to the wise...