The Ebola Outbreak. Can it be Controlled?

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Monsanto Invests in Ebola Treatment Drug Company as Pandemic Spreads

By Mike Adams

A global outbreak of deadly Ebola is underway and
has crossed national borders. One infected victim of the horrifying
disease flew on international flights, vomiting on board and exposing
hundreds of people to the deadly virus which can be transmitted through
airborne particles. Ebola has an 8-10 day incubation period, meaning
thousands of people could be carrying it right now and spreading it
across the cities of the world without even knowing it.

Passengers in Hong Kong and the UK have already shown symptoms of
the disease and are being tested, reports USA Today. (2) The Peace
Corps has evacuated its volunteers from the region after two were
exposed to Ebola. (3)”

Expert claims panic over death of U.S. man in Nigeria is ‘justified’”
reports the Daily Mail. (1) “He warned the spread of Ebola could become
a global pandemic.”
Ebola is the closest thing to real-life zombie infections
With apologies to those victims who have suffered the horrible fate
of Ebola, I’m offering a medically accurate description here as a
warning to everybody else. Believe me when I say you do NOT want to
contract Ebola. Warning: Graphic language below.
Ebola is a gruesome disease that causes cells in the body to
self-destruct, resulting in massive internal and external bleeding. In
its late stages, Ebola can cause the victim to experience convulsions,
vomiting and bleeding from the eyes and ears while convulsing, flinging
blood all over the room and anyone standing nearby, thereby infecting
those people as well. This gruesome ending is the reason Ebola spreads
so effectively. The virus “weaponizes” the blood, then causes the victim
to fling it around on everyone else almost like you might see depicted
in some horror zombie flick.

“Haemorrhaging symptoms begin 4 – 5 days after onset,
which includes hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, pharyngitis, bleeding gums,
oral/lip ulceration, hematemesis, melena, hematuria, epistaxis, and
vaginal bleeding,” reports the Pathogen Safety Data Sheet from the
Public Health Agency of Canada. (8) That same publication also explains,
“There are no known antiviral treatments available for human
infections.”

Read that again: There are NO KNOWN TREATMENTS for human infections.
Sierra Leone’s top Ebola doctor tragically died yesterday from an
Ebola infection. Although well trained in infectious disease, even he
underestimated the ability of this insidious killer to leap from person
to person. Around half of those infected with Ebola die, making it one
of the most fatal diseases known to modern medical science. And yet
medical staff around the world still aren’t exercising sufficient
precautions when interfacing with infected patients.
Monsanto and Department of Defense help fund Pharma company that could earn billions from Ebola treatment
There are some experimental drugs under development by pharma
companies that show some promise, but nothing is commercialized yet. (9)
One fascinating development worth investigating further is that
TEKMIRA Pharmaceuticals, a company working on an anti-Ebola drug, just
received a $1.5 million cash infusion from none other than Monsanto. Click here to read the press release,
which states “Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation is a
biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing novel RNAi therapeutics
and providing its leading lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery technology
to pharmaceutical partners.”
The money from Monsanto is reportedly related to the company’s
developed of RNAi technology used in agriculture. The deal is valued at
up to $86.2 million, according to the WSJ. (11)
Another press release about Tekmira reveals a $140 million contract with the U.S. military for Ebola treatment drugs:

TKM-Ebola, an anti-Ebola virus RNAi therapeutic, is
being developed under a $140 million contract with the U.S. Department
of Defense’s Medical Countermeasure Systems BioDefense Therapeutics
(MCS-BDTX) Joint Product Management Office.

Additional Tekmira partnership are listed at this Tekmira web page.
Not to invoke any charges of collusion or conspiracy here, but a
whole lot of people are going to have raised eyebrows over the fact that
Monsanto just happened to be giving a cash infusion to a key pharma
company working on an Ebola cure right in the middle of a highly-publicized Ebola outbreak
which could create huge market demand for the drugs. The fact that the
U.S. Department of Defense is also involved with all this is going to
have alternative news websites digging hard for additional links.
Sadly, the history of medicine reveals that drug companies, the CDC
and the WHO have repeatedly played up the severity of disease outbreaks
in order to promote sales of treatment drugs. I’m not saying this
outbreak isn’t very real and very alarming, of course. It is real. But
we always have to be suspicious when windfalls profits just happen to
line up for certain corporations following global outbreaks of
infectious disease. Vaccine manufacturers, remember, made billions off
the false swine flu scare, and tens of millions of dollars in stockpiled
swine flu vaccines later had to be destroyed by the governments that
panicked and purchased them.
Has air travel doomed humanity to a pandemic outbreak?
Air travel creates the “perfect storm” for Ebola to devastate
humanity. It all starts with these irrefutable facts about air travel:

1) All passengers are confined to the same enclosed space.

2) All passengers are breathing THE SAME AIR.

3) Ebola can become airborne via very
small particles in the air, and just a single Ebola virus riding on a
dust particle is sufficient to infect a human being (see below).

4) Following the flight, infected
passengers then intermingle with thousands of other people at the
airport, each doing to a different unique destination somewhere else
across the country or around the world.

5) The speed of air travel vastly out-paces the speed of governments being able to deploy infectious disease prevention teams.

A global pandemic wipeout from Ebola, in other words, could originate
from a single person on a single international flight. And it could
circle the globe in less than 48 hours.
Just one organism is sufficient to infect a new host
Just how much Ebola virus does it take to infect someone? Alarmingly, as the Public Health Agency of Canada explains, “1 – 10 aerosolized organisms are sufficient to cause infection in humans.” (8)
Read that again: it takes just ONE aerosolized organism (a
microscopic virus riding on a dust particle) to cause a full-blown
infection in humans. This is why one man vomiting on an international
flight can infect dozens or hundreds of other people all at once.
Some experts fear that has already happened. As the Daily Mail reports: (1)

Nigerian health officials are in the process of
trying to trace 30,000 people, believed to be at risk of contracting the
highly-infectious virus, following the death of Patrick Sawyer in
Lagos. It comes as Nigerian actor Jim Lyke sparked outrage, posting a
picture of himself wearing an Ebola mask while sitting in a first class
airport lounge as he fled Liberia.

Dave Hodges of The Commonsense Show reports: (7)

A desperate search is on to find the hundreds of
passengers who flew on the same jets as Sawyer. A total of 59 passengers
and crew are estimated to have come into contact with Sawyer and effort
is being made to track each individual down. There is an inherent
problem with this “track down”. Presumably, some of the passengers
connected to other flights, which known to be the case. Let’s just say
for the sake of argument that only 20 people, a low estimate given the
nature of the airports that Sawyer was traveling in, were connecting to
other flights, the spread of the virus would quickly expand beyond any
possibility of containment because in less than a half a day, nearly a
half a million people would be potentially exposed. Within a matter of a
couple of hours, Sawyer’s infected fellow travelers would each have
made contact with 200 other passengers and crew. Hours later, these
flights would land and these people would go home to the friends,
families and coworkers across several continents.

CBS News adds: (4)

“Witnesses say Sawyer, a 40-year-old Liberian Finance Ministry employee en route to a conference in Nigeria, was vomiting and had diarrhea aboard at least one of his flights with some 50 other passengers aboard. Ebola can be contracted from traces of feces or vomit, experts say.”

American family members quarantined in Texas
A U.S. doctor named Dr. Kent Brantly has reportedly contracted Ebola.
“Brantly and the couple’s 3- and 5-year-old children left Liberia for a
scheduled visit to the United States on July 20. Days later, Kent
Brantly quarantined himself in the isolation ward of a hospital where he
had been treating Ebola patients after testing positive for the
disease,” reports CBS News. (3)
That same story goes on to say, “Amber Brantly and the children are
in Abilene, Texas, under a 21-day fever watch,” which is essentially a
quarantine. This means the necessary quarantine of American citizens on U.S. soil has already begun.
Nobody is yet talking about what all this might mean if a large U.S.
city shows an outbreak of infections. Will the federal government use
the military to quarantine an entire city? Ultimately, it must!
And make no mistake: this possibility is already written up and on the
books for national emergencies. One declaration of martial law is all
that’s required to seal off an entire U.S. city at gunpoint.
Another CBS News article reports: (4)

“If it gets into a big city, that’s everybody’s worse
nightmare,” said Dr. Tim Geisbert, a professor of microbiology and
immunology at University of Texas Medical Branch, in an interview with
CBS News. “It gets harder to control then. How do you quarantine a big
city?”

The answer, by the way, is by deploying America’s armed forces
against its own citizens in a domestic national emergency scenario.
Everybody in the federal government already knows that. It’s only the
mainstream media that pretends such plans don’t already exist.
Ebola detection kits deployed to all 50 U.S. states
Although the federal government’s official reaction to all this is
low-key, in truth the U.S. government is rapidly preparing for the
possibility of an Ebola outbreak reaching the continental USA.
As reported above, the U.S. Department of Defense already has a $140
million contract awarded to Tekmira for its Ebola treatment drugs.
Additionally, as SHTFplan.com reports: (5)

The Department of Defense informed Congress that it
has deployed biological diagnostic systems to National Guard support
teams in all 50 states, according to a report published by the Committee
on Armed Services. Some 340 Joint Biological Agent Identification and
Diagnostic System (JBAIDS) units have thus far been given to emergency
response personnel. The systems are “rapid, reliable, and [provide]
simultaneous identification of specific biological agents and
pathogens.”

On one hand, we might all applaud the government’s preparedness
actions in all this. It’s smart to have diagnostic systems deployed
nationwide, of course. But it begs the question: When was the government
planning on telling the public about all this? Probably never. There’s
no sense in causing a panic when half the people won’t survive an
outbreak anyway, they figure.
The perfect bioweapon against humanity?
I also need to make you urgently aware that Ebola is a “perfect”
bioweapon. Because of its ability to survive storage and still function
many days, weeks or years later, it could be very easily harvested from infected victims and then preserved using nothing more than a common food dehydrator.
As the Public Health Agency of Canada explains: (8)

The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for
a number of days (23). Infectivity is found to be stable at room
temperature or at 4 (C) for several days, and indefinitely stable at -70
C.

To translate this into laymen’s terms, this means the Ebola virus can be:

• Stored in a liquid vial and easily smuggled across international borders.
• Dehydrated and stored in a dried state, then easily smuggled.
• Frozen at very low temperatures where it remains viable indefinitely.

Once dried, contained or frozen, Ebola pathogens can be smuggled into
target countries with ridiculous ease. In the United States, for
example, people can literally walk right through our Southern open borders with zero security whatsoever.
Open borders is an open invitation for bioweapons terrorism
Once inside the target country, a bioweapons terrorist could then
easily infect people in public transit hubs such as subway stations,
airports, bus stations and so on. Unfortunately, spraying a few Ebola
particles into people’s faces is ridiculously easy, especially if the
terrorist carrying out the activities decides he is on a suicide mission
and doesn’t care about self-exposure.
An outbreak of Ebola in a major U.S. city would quite literally
threaten the public health of the entire nation. That’s why an “open
borders” policy in the middle of a global Ebola outbreak is
unconscionable from the point of view of public health. CDC officials
must be tearing their hair out over this issue.
Think about it: America is a country where public health officials
freak out and go crazy when two children acquire whooping cough in a
public school in Maryland. But when tens of thousands of people are
streaming into the country, unbounded, with near-zero medical scrutiny
in the middle of an international Ebola outbreak, federal officials do
almost nothing at all. If there is an Ebola outbreak in the U.S., this
is most likely how it will arrive.