5 Questions About the Ebola ScareAaron Dykes Melissa Melton After all, people were dying of Ebola in the hundreds in West Africa before this week. Aid workers and doctors were getting infected before. These things are not new, but the sudden media focus raises lots of questions. To start Why are they shipping Ebola-infected patients onto American soil for the first time? As many have pointed out, this move seems particularlyill-advised. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautioned people not to fly to the affected areas, but our State Department is going to go out of its way to put together heavily publicized, special containment tents inside planes to fly two Americans here while the media in lockstep makes a huge play-by-play deal? It isnt exactly level 4 containment all the way, either, as Underground Medics Lizzie Bennett pointed out yesterday: the one guy arrived at the hospital and just got out of the ambulance and walked on in. Why is Obama amending executive orders about quarantining people infected with Ebola when he already had that power? The president just amended a G.W. Bush-era executive order 13295 which allows apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases. Section 1, subjection b has now been replaced with the following: Sure sounds like Ebola, doesnt it? But in reality, those quarantine powers were already in place. It even says so on this CDC map of U.S. quarantine stations fact sheet the agency released in August 2013. So why make a big deal amending an executive order when the power to detain people who have, or are suspected to have Ebola, already exists? The CDC also just released a brand new, timely webpage Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in U.S. Hospitals as if it just completely slipped the agencys mind to disseminate information to medical professionals on how to deal with Ebola before now. Come on. The page does, however, mention guidance for exposure to contaminated air, which is odd considering the CDC director has gone out of his way to say that theres no way an Ebola outbreak could ever happen in the U.S. What exactly have Ft. Detrick biowarfare researchers been doing in the Ebola hot zone in West Africa all this time? Independent investigative reporter Jon Rappoport asked this very same question the day before yesterday, but it seems like a good one. He had several other questions, and they are all good ones: The same day, Navy Times published an article talking about how U.S. biowarfare scientists have been highly interested in Ebola since at least the late 1970s for engineering bioweapons: mainly because Ebola and its fellow viruses have high mortality ratesand its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon. But the article goes on to say that scientists from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) have been working on a vaccine since then, a purely defensive measure. Of course, they cant come out and say theyre working on offensive weapons. The Biological Weapons Convention went into effect in 1975, supposedly putting an end to the governments biological weapons program. Why does the U.S. government own a patent on a novel strain of Ebola that those same Ft. Detrick researchers quietly admitted in a CDC journal article last month may actually be the cause of the current Sierra Leone outbreak, not Ebola Zaire as widely reported? This one gets tricky. There are five types of Ebola virus and the newest strain is named Bundibugyo, or Ebobun for short. The U.S. government actually holds a patent on this strain US 20120251502 A1, for Human Ebola Virus Species and Compositions and Methods Thereof related to the Bundibugyo version of the virus. Last month, the same Ft. Detrick researchers who have been over in the Ebola hot zone published an article in the CDCs Emerging Infectious Diseases where they discuss the human testing that has been going on over there and down near the bottom of the article, they quietly admit,Ebolavirus infections in Sierra Leone might be the result of Bundibugyo virus or an ebolavirus genetic variant and not EBOV. The kicker? The Ebobun version of Ebola, which is apparently been found to be genetically distinct, as it differs by more than 30% at the genome level from all other known ebolavirus species, apparently has a much lower death rate than the Zaire version the media keeps talking about. Not that Ebola in any form isnt dangerous. Its deadly, period. But Ebobun had a 36% mortality rate at the initial outbreak in 2007, versus 70-90% on average for Zaire. Additionally, because it is much more unique, researchers have suggested that if a vaccine or treatment is created for Ebola and the Ebobun strain is not taken into account, the resulting treatment or vaccine obviously might not work on it. Regardless, all the mainstream media seems interested in driving home on repeat these days is that this outbreak is the Zaire strain which has a 90% mortality rate and no cure. Welleven that isnt entirely true A NOVA presentation from 1995 clearly shows survivors and discusses how a nurse named Nicole was given blood transfusions from an infected patient who survived, to build up antibodies. Areview sums it up: That was 20 years ago. Current news stories even discuss how the doctor who was flown here infected with Ebola was given a unit of blood from a 14-year-old who survived Ebola. The female patient flown in was also reportedly given an experimental serum no one seems to elaborate much on. On top of that, articles from 2008 show a vaccine was highly effective in monkeys and even used experimentally in a human patient with success. Where did those vaccines go? Why arent they widely available six years later? And finally, as with any crisis, who stands to gain from this, and what is it they are ultimately after? Just asking. One company Tekmira, who has been performing Phase I clinical trials for an Ebola drug it has been working on in otherwise healthy adult patients has seen its stock skyrocket over the last two weeks, even though its experiments in humans have now been halted due to safety concerns. Tekmira apparently has a $140 million contract with none other than the USAMRIID to work on this drug, along with a multi-million contract with biotech giant Monsanto for the same technology. The drug was granted FDA fast track status back in March. As the companys site says, however, the drug is apparently for the Zaire strain of the virus. So has Tekmira taken the Ebobun strain into account? In addition, now Reuters is reporting that Ebola vaccines have been fast tracked as well, with human experiments starting as early as next month. Wow, that was fast. Will those vaccines take Ebobun into account? The last time a vaccine was fast tracked in such a manner, it was for the purposefully overblown swine flu pandemic a created campaign of panic basically designed to sell vaccines and grant more emergency powers. As Aaron Dykes reported in 2010: Wodarg made several disconcerting statements to the media, including: In fact, thats what CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson was set to expose, but her bosses refused to air her story. The mainstream media completely shut her down. Fear sells. The truth, by contrast, doesnt. With the CDC keeping the true Swine Flu stats secret, it meant that many in the public took and gave their children an experimental vaccine that may not have been necessary, Attkisson said. Read this piece on her 2009 interview with Jon Rappoport for more on how the CDC stopped counting cases of swine flu altogether and hyped the public into a panic that ultimately led to millions of people receiving potentially dangerous, fast-tracked vaccinations. Thats right. Countries the world over reported many deaths and disabilities suffered in the wake of the fast-tracked H1N1 vaccine, a vaccine people scrambled to get after the hysteria over swine flu was over hyped everywhere, from government agencies to the mainstream media. But hey, a lot of people in the military-medical-media industrial complex made a lot of money. Much worse than mere greed, though, is the possibility of martial law and a forced mass vaccination scenario a scenario where the military is forced to step in to contain bio-threats (regardless of whether or not those threats are real or made up). For more on that, see DARPAsBlue Angel project. Talking about something scary isnt automatically scaremongering but if the powers that shouldnt be are scaremongering, we should talk about it. (Meanwhile, headlines about Ebola fear going viral are already screaming at people to be afraidvery very afraid.) Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton created TruthstreamMedia.com,where this article first appeared, as an outlet to examine the news, uncover the deceptions, pierce through the fabric of illusions, know the real enemy, unshackle from the system, and begin to imagine the path towards taking back our lives, one step at a time, so that one day we might truly be free 