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Did West Africa's Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin? -- And Critical Covid Connections
Africans who charged that the outbreak had lab origin were dismissed. Scientists they accused were the loudest in dismissing the possibility of lab origin for Covid. Were the Africans right all along?
By Sam Husseini | October 26, 2022
We now disclose the results of our scientific investigation into the origin of that outbreak. What we have uncovered are fundamental logical and scientific weaknesses in the orthodox outbreak story and, as well, strong evidence that supports an origin in Sierra Leone. First, we show that the orthodox story of patient zero–the Guinean child who played with bats is simply speculation and unsupported by clinical or documentary evidence. Second, the epidemiological links from this child to the first confirmed cases, which were months later, are also highly speculative.
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Did West Africa's Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin? -- And Critical Covid Connections
Africans who charged that the outbreak had lab origin were dismissed. Scientists they accused were the loudest in dismissing the possibility of lab origin for Covid. Were the Africans right all along?
By Sam Husseini | October 26, 2022
Independent Science News just published the in-depth investigative piece "Did West Africa's Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin?" by virologist Jonathan Latham, the editor of ISN, and myself. I believe the piece's ramifications are profound and have a serious bearing on what has transpired with the Covid pandemic.
Synopsis: The Ebola outbreak of 2014 was a disaster for West Africa. Over 11,000 lives were lost amidst intense negative social and economic consequences. The 2014 outbreak of Zaire Ebola (as the species is known) is today commonly cited as a bona fide example of a natural zoonosis that began in the country of Guinea. However, as is widely known, the 2014 outbreak was puzzling on multiple levels. The greatest of these puzzles is that all previous Zaire Ebola virus outbreaks occurred in the Congo basin, which is thousands of miles away. Additionally, to this day, despite extensive sampling, no animal source of Zaire Ebola virus in West Africa has ever been identified. At the same time, in Sierra Leone, not far from the border with Guinea, is the town of Kenema which hosts a U.S.-funded virus research facility. The research focus of this lab, which is run by the U.S.-based Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, are the viral hemorrhagic fevers of which Ebola is one.
We now disclose the results of our scientific investigation into the origin of that outbreak. What we have uncovered are fundamental logical and scientific weaknesses in the orthodox outbreak story and, as well, strong evidence that supports an origin in Sierra Leone. First, we show that the orthodox story of patient zero–the Guinean child who played with bats is simply speculation and unsupported by clinical or documentary evidence. Second, the epidemiological links from this child to the first confirmed cases, which were months later, are also highly speculative.
Thirdly, we have reanalyzed the phylogeny of the Ebola genomes published during the outbreak and find no support for an origin in Guinea. Rather, phylogenetics strongly supports assertions made at the time by MSF (Doctors without Borders) that, though identified first, the Guinea outbreak actually spread from Sierra-Leone. In line with this supposition, we lay out the compelling phylogenetic evidence that the Sierra Leone outbreak began well before its official date of first detection. Lastly, our investigation revealed a cover-up. Although there are clear and obvious inconsistencies between the phylogenetic evidence and the orthodox narrative of a Guinean origin, western researchers, many of them from the lab in Kenema, or closely connected to it, chose to overlook these weaknesses to promote a false and misleading Guinean origin story.
Here's a breakdown of a few of the individuals and institutions described in the piece, sometimes noting their involvement with Covid.
Robert Garry of Tulane University and Zalgen
Kristian Andersen of Scripps Research
Garry is president and founder of the VHFC. Andersen is vice president. In dismissing claims by Africans that his labs might have been responsible for the outbreak, Gary told Politifact: "We were there working 10 years and then Ebola came here." But on August 25, 2013, just months before the Ebola outbreak, the VHFC posted on its website an article titled: "Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute make major advances in the fight against Ebola virus." This article is no longer on their website, but we retrieved the headline from WayBackMachine. As noted in the in-depth article, several of the scientists at the VHFC have done extensive work on Ebola.
Garry and Andersen were the two most vocal authors of "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2" — which claimed in March of 2020 that Covid could not have lab origin and was widely used to dismiss the need for scrutiny as the public was attempting to understand the pandemic.
Fabian Leendertz of the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin.
In 2014 Leendertz was the senior author of the influential paper which claimed: "The severe Ebola virus disease epidemic occurring in West Africa stems from a single zoonotic transmission event to a 2‐year‐old boy in Meliandou, Guinea." This despite compelling evidence to the contrary, including that they could find no Ebola among the bats in the area, that there was no mass die-off of surrounding mammal wildlife as with past Ebola outbreaks. Also, the child in question, according to several sources, including his father, was actually 18 months old when he died and too young to be playing with bats.
Please go to substack to continue reading.
Here's a breakdown of a few of the individuals and institutions described in the piece, sometimes noting their involvement with Covid.
Robert Garry of Tulane University and Zalgen
Kristian Andersen of Scripps Research
Garry is president and founder of the VHFC. Andersen is vice president. In dismissing claims by Africans that his labs might have been responsible for the outbreak, Gary told Politifact: "We were there working 10 years and then Ebola came here." But on August 25, 2013, just months before the Ebola outbreak, the VHFC posted on its website an article titled: "Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute make major advances in the fight against Ebola virus." This article is no longer on their website, but we retrieved the headline from WayBackMachine. As noted in the in-depth article, several of the scientists at the VHFC have done extensive work on Ebola.
Garry and Andersen were the two most vocal authors of "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2" — which claimed in March of 2020 that Covid could not have lab origin and was widely used to dismiss the need for scrutiny as the public was attempting to understand the pandemic.
In 2014 Leendertz was the senior author of the influential paper which claimed: "The severe Ebola virus disease epidemic occurring in West Africa stems from a single zoonotic transmission event to a 2‐year‐old boy in Meliandou, Guinea." This despite compelling evidence to the contrary, including that they could find no Ebola among the bats in the area, that there was no mass die-off of surrounding mammal wildlife as with past Ebola outbreaks. Also, the child in question, according to several sources, including his father, was actually 18 months old when he died and too young to be playing with bats.
Please go to substack to continue reading.
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