A Professor in U.S. is Telling Liberians that the Defense Department ‘Manufactured’ Ebola

An Ebola sign placed in front of a home in the West Point slum area of Monrovia, Liberia, on Sept. 25, 2014. (EPA/AHMED JALLANZO)

washingtonpost.com - by Terrence McCoy - September 26, 2014

. . . As those military doctors and officials begin what will be a difficult task, among the challenges they face are rumors that spread fear — fear of Ebola, fear of quarantine measures and fear of doctors. Already, several medical workers have been murdered in Guinea — throats slit, bodies dumped in a latrine. Then six Red Cross volunteers were attacked earlier this week while they tried to collect the body of an Ebola victim.

And now, in what may plant further seeds of mistrust and suspicion, a major Liberian newspaper, the Daily Observer, has published an article by a Liberian-born faculty member of a U.S. university implying the epidemic is the result of bioterrorism experiments conducted by the United States Department of Defense, among others.

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