Ebola in West Africa leaked from a US-funded biofacility in Sierra Leone

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Bunmi fatoye-matory

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Nov 4, 2022, 8:52:29 AM11/4/22
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Dear Friends,
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I've always had my suspicions about the Ebola West Africa outbreak.  I read in the New York Times back then that Tulane University scientists and the U.S. Dept of Defense were conducting Ebola research in our region, which had never had an Ebola outbreak.  The Tulane folks were doing something related to pediatrics.  One of the first victims of Ebola was a little boy in Liberia or Sierra Leone who gave it to his grandmother.  I hope our scientists, journalists and government officials would  look more into this.  Here is a link to this story.

Gloria Emeagwali

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Nov 4, 2022, 9:00:14 AM11/4/22
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I had my suspicions - although I 
thought it involved a Canadian company
as well.The way the virus spread was
 suspicious to me at the time.

Thanks for sharing.


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Ibrahim Abdullah

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Nov 4, 2022, 9:37:31 AM11/4/22
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Understanding West Africa's Ebola Epidemic deals with those issues. 

Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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Nov 4, 2022, 11:13:19 AM11/4/22
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Additional information from "Independentsciencenews.org "
by Sam Husseini and Jonathan Latham, PhD. Between 2014 and 2016, West Africa endured an Ebola epidemic that was easily the largest and deadliest in history.








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History Department, Central Connecticut State University
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2014 Distinguished Research Excellence Award in African Studies
 University of Texas at Austin
2019   Distinguished Africanist Award                   
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Victor Okafor

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Nov 4, 2022, 2:26:55 PM11/4/22
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Hello Bunmi, you did well by calling attention to a real threat to the wellbeing of a regional segment of humanity, namely the West African region. You have done well by calling attention to this environmental threat and its international tentacles.To be meaningful, scholarship must also involve praxis--that is, geared towards improvement of the human condition; otherwise, it becomes scholarship for the mere sake of it--a waste of everyone's time--that ends up alienating the larger society and being viewed as an elephant undertaking.

I have always wondered about how these types of mega infectious diseases (with a historic and rather surprising exception of Covid-19) often tend to be linked to an African locale as a starting point. Note, however, that West Africa is not the only region where Ebola has manifested itself in recent times. As we speak, Uganda in East Africa is battling with it. An outbreak has also been reported in the Central African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo.  

Treating Africa as a dumping ground or an experimental lab, a guinea pig, is an age-old phenomenon often made possible by lax or ineffective governmental vigilance or societal disequilibrium which creates a field-day for infiltrators and exploiters who do not mean well. Societal instability and perennial internal discord create fertile ground for all manner of internal and external mischief. This is one of the many reasons that social tranquility, a harmonious national co-existence and political stability are essential.

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Bunmi fatoye-matory

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Nov 4, 2022, 4:16:56 PM11/4/22
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Thanks, Gloria.  Will circulate.

Bunmi

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