10 of the Most Popular Conspiracy Theories About the Ebola Virus Outbreak

Ebola Is Man-Made; the U.S. Government Owns the Patent The Ebola patent held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has fueled one of the most popular Ebola virus conspiracy theories: the U.S. government created the disease. Race-Targeting Bioweapon In a recent Final Call article, Minister Louis Farrakhan cites a national security memo by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger calling for the depopulation of the "Third World" -- as evidence, the Ebola virus has been designed to target those with African genes. Ebola Virus Invented to Implement Population Control In a TED Talk presentation, Bill Gates openly stated, "The world today has 6.8 billion people ... that's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent." The tech mogul's call for world depopulation and simultaneous investments in Ebola and vaccine research have been used by conspiracy theorists to connect him with the recent outbreak. U.S. Pharmaceuticals Using Vaccines to Spread Ebola Delaware State University professor Cyril Broderick, originally from Liberia, wrote an article that was published on the front page of the largest newspaper in his home country, accusing the United States of intentionally engineering the Ebola and AIDS viruses in bioterrorism research labs and infecting Africans with the virus through vaccinations. Western Governments, Pharmaceutical Companies and Elites Expect Major Profits From Ebola Outbreak Some people have theorized that some government-sponsored institutions as well as some of the global elite have positioned themselves to profit enormously from the spread of the virus and the development of and dissemination of mandatory Ebola vaccines and the imposition of total martial law in the process. Ebola Virus Is a Hoax Another popular conspiracy theory hypothesizes that there is no Ebola outbreak, and the CDC -- which functions as the marketing branch of vaccine manufacturers -- is inventing hysteria in order to push high-profit vaccines. Ebola Is a Genetically Engineered Bioweapon, Accidentally Released in Africa The theorists argue that the carelessness of U.S. government health agencies has led to the accidental deployment of a particular strain of Ebola different from anything seen before in the history of Ebola outbreaks -- and it's mutating far faster than any other Ebola strain. The U.S. Government and Pharmaceutical Companies Intentionally Failed to Disclose and Distribute Ebola Treatment to Africans There are Ebola conspiracy theories concluding that a vaccine for Ebola has existed for eight to 10 years. Theorists say efforts to bring natural treatments to suffering West Africans have been squelched by the World Health Organization, which recently blocked multiple shipments of a nanosilver solution -- which the U.S. government previously demonstrated is highly effective against Ebola -- from entering the region, leaving thousands to suffer needlessly. Foreign Ebola Doctors Are Experimenting and Deliberately Spreading the Disease Because of contagion risk, authorities say the cadavers of Ebola victims must be disposed of securely, so many of the Ebola patients who die at the health centers in West Africa are never seen again by their families. This has spawned deep suspicion within the local villages that the foreign health workers are actually experimenting on and killing their family members. Mass Formaldehyde Poisoning Behind the 'Supposed' Ebola Outbreak Reports of a formaldehyde spray being used in public areas to fight Ebola and thwarted attempts at contaminating water supplies with the same substance have certain West African villages up in arms proclaiming that the Ebola outbreak is a lie perpetrated by the government, and that so-called outbreaks are merely formaldehyde poisonings carried out by government agents. Formaldehyde poisoning allegedly has the same symptoms as Ebola.

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