i agree it is a deadly disease... but we also know that a malnourished human secretes millions of malformed fragments of dna and rna in their secretions and these fragments when ingested cause disease.
this is why astronauts with no virus around get sick
this is why illness emerges when people in groups are quarantined
this is why cities have outbreaks but we don't see events in the country side
large groups of people shed malformed fragments of genetic material onto each other and that can cause disease.
but what caused the disease host in the first place.... my bet is on toxic environmental exposure
quotingthe ebola reservoir is often described as a consequence of latent virus in fruit bats crossing over to human infectivity
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https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf050/8116758
Fruit bats live across Africa, Asia, and Oceania, meaning:
"The presence of these animals alone does not explain Ebola outbreaks"
the one thing that ebola outbreaks all have in common: heavy industry and mineral mining
DRC: Major global producer of cobalt, copper, diamonds, gold; outbreaks have occurred in/near mining areas (e.g., gold mining villages).
Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone: Significant iron ore, gold, diamonds, bauxite; mining was impacted but continued during the 2014–2016 outbreak.
Gabon, Republic of the Congo: Oil, manganese, gold, timber-related extraction; historical gold-mining camp outbreaks.
Uganda: Gold, copper mining.
South Sudan: Gold, copper, iron ore, limestone
Ivory Coast: Gold (major producer), diamonds, manganese, bauxite, nickel
Every single place that has experienced an “Ebola” outbreak is also an area of heavy mining and exploitation of raw earth materials
All of these metal extractive processes share arsenic use and release in common. The symptoms of arsenic poisoning include every sign and symptom present in "ebola"
I think it is very likely that if arsenic levels were routinely tested in ebola patients, a strong correlation would begin to emerge.
