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@DrNeilStone Consider the source of who is pushing this story.

Ebola is a scary virus It's scary to work with too and I really appreciate the scientists who do it If the stories are true about Ebola samples being brought to the US without property safety procedures being followed that's a hell of a serious breach

@AmendOneX @DrNeilStone Also Two approved treatments as well and others in development as back ups. An American medivac’d to Germany is already being treated with one of the NexGen drugs that was part of that research spending. Money well spent

@DrNeilStone How many years have they been studying it, and what have all those years of study and taxpayer monies produced?

@mattwridley I don’t think you can say a FCS is “selected against” in SarbecoV just because a virus has an enteric component in its reservoir.MERS and related viruses are also bat enterics & some have FCS sites,right? We don’t yet know why no SARS FCS have been found prior to this outbreak.

No. Furin cleavage sites are selected AGAINST in sarbecoviruses. They are enteric viruses in bats.

@harryfisherEMTP How much is an American life worth? That virus has been to the US and the American evacuated to Germany may well live as a result of American Government investment into experimental drugs for a “rare” disease. Money well spent.

$704 million contract the government signed back in 2023 for an Ebola treatment called Ebanga. I might just be jaded post covid, but it seems to reason that you don't spend $704 million on a "rare" disease unless you already have a plan to make sure that product gets used. I also find it strange that Pfizer’s adverse event documents list so many hemorrhagic events of special interest… God bless

@uTobian There is no evidence of antiviral efficacy against any hantavirus with ivermectin, zero.

Any supposed hantavirus exposure for the 25 Americans on the MV Hondius cruise ship could be treated with about $25 worth of ivermectin. Instead we get this ridiculous PREP Act emergency declaration, Pharma liability protection, and endless pandemic porn AGAIN.

@RWMaloneMD “Buy my book….”

Here is today's essay. At update to my first book "Lies My Government Told Me, and The Better Future Coming." Lies My Government Told Me: Updated What time has revealed about the COVID era, and why the silencing of dissent was the most consequential failure of all malone.news/p/lies-my-gove… There has been a lot of water under the bridge since then, but looking back, I think that we can all clearly see and agree on the overall underpinning lie that lead to all of the others.

Trust is the one thing a public-health system cannot manufacture in the middle of a crisis. It can only spend the trust it has already earned. And the fastest way to burn through that trust is to project absolute confidence, silence critics, get caught being wrong, and then issue the correction in a whisper months later or never at al. Do that often enough, and eventually they will create exactly what we have now: a country that instinctively distrusts official certainty, even in moments when the authorities may finally be telling the truth. That may prove to be the most damaging legacy of the entire pandemic era.

@Dogsarethepure1 @LauraLoomer @realDonaldTrump @LoomerUnleashed I wish you were right, unfortunately the issue is mostly that NO AI models or organoid(petri dish models) can mimic the human immune response (which is critical) accurately enough to predict if a drug will work. Maybe one day, &I think we should keep trying. But we are not there.

@DoGoodScience @LauraLoomer @realDonaldTrump @LoomerUnleashed Hardly true at all with all the modern technology we have.

I am hopeful that President Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump will deliver a massive blow to Deep State labs by signing an Executive Order to completely BAN all horrific animal testing across all federal agencies. On Loomer Unleashed @LoomerUnleashed, White Coat Waste Senior Vice President Justin Goodman @JustinRGoodman highlighted that while key Trump admin officials like @SecWar Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth are successfully ending animal testing at their agencies, the @NIH remains the absolute black sheep of this administration. Leftover Fauci bureaucrats are still running the show at NIH and NIAID, and they are protecting these cruel labs from a total PURGE. Shut down all of the taxpayer funded animal testing labs!

@jeffreytucker Creating Bioweapons is illegal per the biological weapons act of 1972. There is also a block on GOF work on microbes in the US per the president’s EUA.

The bioweapons/GoF industry is destructive but ultimately extremely stupid, rooted in a fallacy derived from movies and not microbial logic. They will NEVER create a pathogen and an inoculation that match in real life. They have been trying and failing for 75 years. Give it up!

@RWMaloneMD Not pandemic but also not a small epidemic.This is one of the largest filovirus outbreaks on record, and it still growing. The “let it burn itself out” mentality is exactly why the West African Ebola epidemic got out of control. It’s better to help before things get much worse

I disagree with this assessment. It is a epidemic, and not a large one. A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that spreads across multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a large number of people. This may become a large epidemic, but very unlikely to be a pandemic. Definitions matter. It really isn't a large epidemic yet - but as Ebola spreads from body fluids and contact, most likely - the case count will rise rapidly for a bit and then decline rapidly. People aren't stupid and as soon the outbreak was known throughout the region, people probably became more careful. Most likely - it is already mostly self-contained. Just has to burn itself out now.

@fuckyourfeels24 @VeronikaSain @CBSEveningNews Are you sure? The United States primarily imports vital, heavy-industry, and tech-critical minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). These imports primarily fuel America's energy transition, aerospace industry, infrastructure, and electronics sector.

@VeronikaSain @CBSEveningNews No it’s not a US problem. The solution is for us to close our borders. You want to spend your money there? Then have at it. I have no responsibility to these people. Close the borders, shut off ALL foreign aid.

The CDC has increased the number of countries in Africa at risk for Ebola from three to ten. There is no approved vaccine for this strain that’s spreading in a part of the Democratic Republic of Congo that's plagued by poverty - and by violence.

@bruce_kris56597 @delbigtree @SecKennedy No one said blanket vaccination was called for. The goal is to prevent or reduce death or treat disease as there are no options, zero. Imagine you had a family member affected and there were no options for treatment for a disease with high mortality.

@DoGoodScience @delbigtree @SecKennedy If you only vaccinated the at risk populations where this virus occurs you would have to vaccinate 25,000 people to prevent one death. If your blanket vaccinated the global population you would have to vaccinate over 200,000,000 people to prevent one death. Math much?

Today, I signed a targeted PREP Act declaration to support the development and deployment of medical countermeasures related to Andes virus, which can cause the deadly respiratory illness Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. This action helps remove barriers to research and response efforts while we continue monitoring the recent outbreak linked to the South Atlantic cruise ship. HHS is taking this situation seriously and will continue working to protect public health and support the safe development of potential treatments and countermeasures.

@RWMaloneMD @delbigtree @SecKennedy The point is that there are no approved countermeasures, zero. That needs to change. This measure will allow some latitude to allow that. Transmission capacity is important, but so is saving lives

For most hantaviruses, the effective human-to-human R₀ is essentially 0, because they are primarily rodent-borne and do not spread efficiently between people. The major exception is the South American Andes virus strain. For Andes virus specifically, average effective reproductive number for Andes virus in normal community conditions is well below 1, with outbreaks self-limiting unless very specific circumstances occur.

@MplsGardenerd @delbigtree @SecKennedy West Africa Ebola virus killed over 10000. SARS CoV2 killed millions as did 1918 Spanish flu.

@DoGoodScience @delbigtree @SecKennedy Deadly viruses do not spread among large populations.

@grok @message2garcia @delbigtree @SecKennedy Hey @grok how many people globally and in the USA are infected with or die from hantavirus infection? This includes other hantaviruses, not just Andes virus.

@delbigtree @SecKennedy Del, you are missing the point. This virus and its relatives kills way more than 3 people and every person affected by this disease deserves access to prevention or treatment. Do better.

@SecKennedy Bobby, I remember so many inspiring strategy discussions during your campaign. Providing liability protection to corporate interests for a virus that killed 3 people out of 7 billion was not one of them.

@LauraLoomer Seems like fixing Lyme disease is a national priority for this administration

@LauraLoomer Some cosmetics show that they were not tested on animals, if pharma did the same…which drug do you think people would use for life threatening diseases like Ebola? Lyme disease ect…? Not many people would enroll in a trial without efficacy data unless they had no other choice.

I have forwarded the case of the arrested animal activists who helped save beagles from animal testing labs at Ridglan Farms, a large-scale beagle breeding and biomedical research facility located in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, to the Trump DOJ and they are reviewing it. These are state charges, so President Trump cannot pardon these brave activists, but I am confident the Trump DOJ will work hard to find a resolution and work with state prosecutors. Ultimately, state prosecutors will need to drop the charges. As many of you know, I work with @WhiteCoatWaste and we have been working very hard over the last year to encourage the Trump administration to sign an Executive Order or Executive Memorandum to ban all taxpayer funded animal testing. Every year, over $20 billion US taxpayer dollars are spent on abusive and cruel animal tests. President Trump should ban animal testing and he should announce felony animal abuse charges for any “researcher” caught abusing animals in a lab. There is no scientific benefit to testing on animals in the age of advanced scientific models and AI. Animal testing is barbaric, and it has no place in any civilized society. This is a bipartisan cause, and it’s something we can all be united to support. We should all be encouraging the Trump administration to end animal testing. This would be a major W for animals and a major W for the Trump administration. Animals are the ultimate uniting beings. I will partner with anyone, Republican or Democrat to pursue this cause, as I’ve been doing with my friends at @WhiteCoatWaste. @POTUS @JDVance @DAGToddBlanche @SusieWiles47 @Scavino47 @StephenM @StevenCheung47 @LaraLeaTrump @waynehhsiung

@kylamb8 Yes this is part of what congress approved them to do. No propaganda. Check your sources oig.usaid.gov/node/7819

@DoGoodScience No. They are not doctors or public health. No one asked them to assert themselves as such. You are pushing nonsensical propaganda trying to justify their corrupt existence and doing things they were not chartered to do.

USAID was not public health. They were not doctors. They were not experts. The same people that want you to listen to the "experts" are complaining that a development organization isn't playing the role of virologist/epidemiologist/medical doctor.