Originally Posted by DocRocket
There are a lot of things about this story that bother me.

First and foremost, I'm puzzled that the epidemic seems to have spontaneously appeared in 3 geographically separated urban areas in Africa, with no history of it appearing first in rural/tribal areas and spreading to urban areas. This doesn't sound like Ebola, which typically crawls out of the jungle, kills a [bleep] of rural Africans, and dies out within 2-5 transmission generations, making little impact in cities.

If I was a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist, I might say that this sounds like somebody has been monkeying with Ebola virus in the lab and has deliberately released it to test its efficacy as a biological warfare agent.

But I'm fresh out of tinfoil, so I'll just let that sleeping dog lie...


I have plenty of tin foil so I'll put the hat on for you. grin

Seriously, anytime something is to coincidental to be a coincidental it is.


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