Seems the human-infectious form of Ebola was patented back in 2010 by a US government lab (CDC): http://www.google.com/patents/CA2741523A1?cl=en
Claims: 1. An isolated hEbola virus comprising a nucleic acid molecule... 2. An isolated hEbola virus having Centers for Disease Control Deposit Accession No. 200706291. And likewise any vaccine that might be forthcoming: 3. The hEbola virus of any one of claims 1 or 2 which is killed. 4. The hEbola virus of claim 1 which is an attenuated hEbola virus. 5. The virus of claim 4 wherein at least one property of the attenuated hEbola virus is reduced from among infectivity, replication ability, protein synthesis ability, assembling ability or cytopathic effect. From: James Bowery [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2014 01:08 To: vortex-l Subject: [Vo]:Off Topic: "Flu" Season Sorry but since none of the usual "policy experts" want to touch this with a ten-foot poll, it is shaping up to have some features in common with other civilization-impacting failures of "policy experts" with which this list is all-too familiar: Early symptoms of Ebola are "flu-like" and it is contagious during these "flu-like" symptoms. Now ... consider the fact that flu season is upon us. But you know what's _really_ frightening about this? Not one of the goddamn idiot "authorities" has even mentioned, let alone assessed, this confounding situation's impact on public health containment measures. Now THAT'S frightening! Read the CDC's guidelines on monitoring and movement of persons with <http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/monitoring-and-movement-of-persons-with-exposure.html> "exposure" and tell me their guidelines work for a country in the throes of massive incidence of "flu-like symptoms".
