A former professor from Liberia claims Ebola was manufactured by western pharmaceuticals in an article he published in a popular Liberian publication.
Cyril Broderick Sr., a former professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Liberia's College of Agriculture and Forestry, suggests in his Daily Observer article that the United States engineered the Ebola virus and purposefully infected Africans with the deadly disease.
He submitted the article to one of Liberia's highest circulated newspapers to spread his theory across the highly infected country.
"There is urgent need for affirmative action in protecting the less affluent of poorer countries, especially African citizens, whose countries are not as scientifically and industrially endowed as the United States and most Western countries, sources of most viral or bacterial GMOs that are strategically designed as biological weapons," Broderick writes. "It is most disturbing that the U.S. Government has been operating a viral hemorrhagic fever bioterrorism research laboratory in Sierra Leone. Are there others?"
Broderick also accuses the United Nations and the World Health Organization to be in support of the U.S. bioterrorism because they are "enticing African countries to participate in the testing events, promoting vaccinations, but pursuing various testing regiments."
His allegations are based off of reports such as "Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola - Nature, Accident or Intentional?" (1998) by Dr. Leonard Horowitz, "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston, and "West Africa: What are US Biological Warfare Researchers Doing in the Ebola Zone?" by Jon Rappoport.
He also tweeted about the possiblity of the U.S. using Africans suffering from Ebola as "guniea pigs" in their experiments.
#EBOLA in Africa There are many reports that the Ebola incidence in Africa is due to efficacy tests? Are Africans being used as guinea pigs?
— Cyril E Broderick Sr (@Emblem4u) August 21, 2014
Many of the commenters on Broderick's Daily Observer article are questioning the validity of his acuisations.
"These are the kinds of publications which are going to do more harm to our fight against Ebola than good," writes Lamii Kpargoi, in response to the article. "Dr. Broderick could have waited till this thing was contained before publishing his speculations."
