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Top Medical Expert Calls Ebola Outbreak 'Suspicious'; Others Cite Use as Bio-Weapon!

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  • Top medical expert calls Ebola outbreak ‘suspicious’; others cite use as bio-weapon! 
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    After much speculation about the current Ebola outbreak, one medical expert has gone on record to voice concerns about what is being called the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history.
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    “I am concerned about the prevalence and pathogenicity of the situation, which is too much even for Ebola. Too many people are dying. I don’t rule out that there’s something artificial here …. What is happening with Ebola there, could there also be something man-made about it?” Gennady Onischenko, Russia’s former chief medical officer, told RT News on Thursday.
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    Onischenko’s comments are the first from a credible medical expert that openly cast doubt on the current outbreak’s natural origin.
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    The World Health Organization’s head of health security, Keiji Fukuda, also voiced concern over whether current measures are sufficient to contain the outbreak, but stopped short of questioning the outbreak’s origin.
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    “The likelihood is that things [with Ebola] will get worse before they get better,” he warned.
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    As of Aug. 8, WHO confirmed 1,779 infections of Ebola across four countries, resulting in 961 fatalities, according to Time magazine.
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    Although no other experts have questioned the cause of the outbreak, several have expressed concern that Ebola could be used as a biological weapon.
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    “Such possibility exists,” Vladimir Nikiforov, who heads the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Federal Medical-Biological Agency’s Institution of Advanced Training, acknowledged at a press conference in Moscow, according to RT.
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    “Actually, this virus can be used in the form of a spray, which can lead to very big trouble,” said Nikiforov. “Biological weapons are nothing like a nuclear bomb …. In order to make a nuclear bomb, one would require a uranium mine, a nuclear power plant and so on, but biological weapons are made in a small laboratory, which can be easily camouflaged.”
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    Biological antropologist Dr. Peter Walsh of Cambridge University said that only a few laboratories in the world have samples of the Ebola virus and are all well protected. However, he pointed out that there is a risk that terrorist organizations might try to acquire the virus from West Africa.
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    The virus has spread with such rapidity that WHO declared a global health emergency, while the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assigned its highest priority level to containing the disease. The Nigerian government has also declared a national state of emergency in response to the outbreak.
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