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A novel protein involved in the Ebola nucleocapsid that is approximated only by pneumoviruses (viruses that cause respiratory infections).

You are reading way too much into the phrase "is approximated only by" and mentally substituting "came from" for which there is no evidence.

Notice the "early symptoms" of Ebola. Cough.

Practically all systemic disease involves tussis at some point. Not surprising since the respiratory system is so sensitive and fragile. Not indicative in itself of bio-engineering efforts.

If someone engineered this as an airborne virus they did a damn poor job of it!

If I implied that I think the proteins are identical or the EBOV “came from” the pneumovirus, that was not intended. I said approximated because that’s what I meant, approximated.

That this type of protein is found ONLY in EBOV and pneumoviridae may mean nothing. Then again it may mean a lot. It has me thinking.

I don’t know why you’re going on about bioengineering. I have never said, suggested or thought that this is bioengineered. It’s a wild virus, plain and simple.

It’s also true that because both EBOV and pneumoviridae are both negative sense RNA viruses, recombination and other forms of genetic sharing would be very easy between them. Who knows, perhaps one picked up the gene from the other. That would require a lot of study to determine.

I take it you haven’t been following the WHO/CDC/etc as they insist that there is no respiratory effect from Ebola. As we know, many non-WHO sources are insisting that cough is in fact an early symptom and given that dendritic cells are one of EBOV’s first and favored cells, it’s perfectly reasonable to conclude that infectious droplets expelled via cough are a transmission vector. Even the WHO quietly admitted it when they mandated their community workers to keep a minimum distance of 3 feet between them and everyone else. But we still have plenty of authorities insisting that the only way one can contract Ebola is by handling vomit or blood barehanded.

Anyway, I hope others read exactly what I write and don’t assume I mean anything other than the words I use. I am careful to say precisely what I mean.