This is from about 5 weeks ago.
“The U.S. military, and in particular, the Army, has had a longstanding mission in preventing and treating infectious and parasitic diseases in troops, dating to the late 1800s.
The Armed Forces Press Service reported late Friday that military health workers, including an entomologist from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, already are in the affected area providing support ranging from logistical assistance to “clinical management” — assisting in treating affected populations.
“DoD personnel bring a level of excellence second to none, working in response to host nations and WHO in the most-affected countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia,” Army Col. James Cummings, a physician and director of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center told AFPS.
Filoviruses like Ebola have been of interest to the Pentagon since the late 1970s, mainly because Ebola and its fellow viruses have high mortality rates — in the current outbreak, roughly 60 percent to 72 percent of those who have contracted the disease have died — and its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon.
Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have sought to develop a vaccine or treatment for the disease.
Last year, USAMRIID scientists used a treatment, MB-003, on primates infected with Ebola after they became symptomatic; the treatment fully protected the animals when given one hour after exposure.”
Thank you for that info.
There is no doubt that USAMRIID and other global agencies were heavily involved in the bio-weapons defense labs in Africa. The more the virus is experimented on , the more chances it has for achieving a positive mutation. Whether by chance, mistake, or intent, there seems to be a new and not well understood mutation. It has beaten normal safeguards. It found a way out, and it seems to have made it to other continents.
How we deal with it will make all the difference. I think the more US Military guys we have handling transfer and security the quicker we can get a handle on the situation.
So they are preparing to set up USAMRID facilities in the field in a primitive 3rd world country, negative pressure rooms, full suits with breathing apparatus and all, when the limits of wearing such suits in the tropics are about 45 minutes
dang our army is just so much smarter about handling ebola than say the 220+ healthcare workers from all countries an agencies who have died since spring
and what do they do when the blood tests positive? admit the patent to die in a bed in an isolation tent, right? Maybe pack em and stack em since there is no way for capacity to keep up. Then incinerate the bodies against all native custom, right?
The natives are going to cooperate with this....maybe not.
Maybe that’s why the 101st airborne is deploying
pres obola is putting our military in a potentially unprecedented humanitarian quagmire that should be policed by african armies, not US armies