The Ebola outbreak in 2014 resulted from an accidental leak in a US lab,

Washington: US researcher claims that the Ebola epidemic in 2014 was caused by accident in a US laboratory based in Sierra Leone, which killed more than 11,000 people between 2014 and 2016. This has been the biggest outbreak of Ebola in Africa so far. A report by the website ‘The Intercept’ claims several hundred accidents in US biological laboratories over the past two decades, which the US health systems have covered up.

Dr Jonathan Latham, a virologist who worked as a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, and journalist Sam Hussaini have published a claim that the Ebola outbreak may have started from the US lab in the Kenema area of Sierra Leone. Latham pointed out that many irregularities were reported in the lab after the 2014 Ebola outbreak. He also revealed that the Sierra Leone government had ordered the lab to stop testing for Ebola.

An outbreak in West Africa in 2014 was claimed to have started from a child in Guinea. However, the researchers and the health authorities have failed to trace the connection between the child and bats. At the same time, investigation and research have failed to detect traces of the Ebola virus in the bats in that area. Therefore, Latham and Hussaini have ruled out the possibility of the epidemic having spurted from Guinea. He has published his research on the website Independent Science News. The Makona variant of Ebola was also not found in West Africa. Hence Dr Latham has questioned the sudden spread of the virus in a country like Guinea.

The researchers also alleged that the sudden outbreak in Guinea was meant to hide the fact that the virus was leaked from a laboratory in Sierra Leone. Latham and Hussaini also pointed out that after the outbreak in Guinea, the US stopped funding the lab in Kenema and terminated its further contracts.

Meanwhile, as information about the Ebola epidemic is being revealed, a website in the United States has published several reports of accidents in biological laboratories in the country. The Intercept reports that there have been hundreds of accidents in the laboratories operating in the US over the last two decades, which have been covertly covered up by the leading health system, the National Institute of Health.