21-10-2014, 06:39 AM
On Oct. 26, 2009 the CDC filed a patent claim on the genome of the Ebola virus [and its variants] and means to produce it, replicate it, produce in mass quantities etc. The Patent can be seen here: https://www.google.com/patents/US20120251502
Exactly what this patent means is not perfectly clear...but does raise some questions. Yes, it could be used to create a vaccine or find cures, but it could equally be used to bioengineer it into a bioweapon or create new forms that are more virulent or more 'targeted', etc. It could also be used to prevent others from using the virus to produce a vaccine or cure!
It would also be interesting to know what is going on with Ebola at Ft. Dietrich, MD - but what goes on there is highly kept secret.
I believe the CDC has granted rights to at least on pharmaceutical company to use their patent.
Exactly what this patent means is not perfectly clear...but does raise some questions. Yes, it could be used to create a vaccine or find cures, but it could equally be used to bioengineer it into a bioweapon or create new forms that are more virulent or more 'targeted', etc. It could also be used to prevent others from using the virus to produce a vaccine or cure!
It would also be interesting to know what is going on with Ebola at Ft. Dietrich, MD - but what goes on there is highly kept secret.
I believe the CDC has granted rights to at least on pharmaceutical company to use their patent.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass