It struck me a little while back that the dynamics and manifestations of the Ebola virus infection closely resemble that of the Black Plague that killed more than a third of Europe's population in the past. So I decided to do a little more research

History has always taught that it was spread by rats even though overwhelming evidence suggested a person-to-person mode of transmission, together with outbreaks of Black Death in places like Iceland where there were no rats.

To my shock, I found that there is a possible connection between HIV and Ebola. According to the leading researchers in this area, Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan, the CCR5Δ32 mutation which is much more common in the European population and confers protection against HIV increased in frequency in the population around the time of the Black Death.

Scott and Duncan suggest that those who carried the CCR5Δ32 allele (and especially those who were homozygous) were more resistant to whatever organism caused this pandemic, similar to what we see with HIV–and that these resistant individuals survived the Black Death at higher rates than their countrymen who didn't carry the mutation, thus driving up the frequency of the CCR5Δ32 allele in the population.

Moreover, it has been shown that CCR5Δ32 does not confer protection against Yersinia pestis, the presumed causative agent of the Black Death but does confer some protection against viral haemorrhagic diseases like Ebola. This mutation is exceedingly rare in the African population.

So the evidence would suggest that individuals who have the CCR5Δ32 may be protected against Ebola.

Now what has agitated my mind since the first reports of the outbreak which is now officially the worst in history is: Why now? Why here? Historically outbreaks of Ebola have been in Central and East Africa. Never reported in West Africa until now. How did Ebola get to West Africa? What exactly is going on?

Are we in the midst of some sort of experiment in biological population control? Recall that HIV has largely failed to affect West Africa the same way it did to East and Southern Africa.

Just some thoughts.

Black Death 'was caused by the Ebola virus'

For the first time in history, the virus has been documented as having infected well over 1,000 people across at least three nations all in one outbreak.

The only connection is that they are 'man made' viruses produced and released to depopulate!

(Black man - wake up)

NwaNimo1: The only connection is that they are 'man made' viruses produced and released to depopulate!

(Black man - wake up)

Exactly and to profit from chaos.

Hmmm.

Thought provoking.

NwaNimo1: The only connection is that they are 'man made' viruses produced and released to depopulate!

(Black man - wake up)

The only connection?

What about this:

aletheia: . . .the CCR5Δ32 mutation which is much more common in the European population and confers protection against HIV

. . .it has been shown that CCR5Δ32 does not confer protection against Yersinia pestis, the presumed causative agent of the Black Death but does confer some protection against viral haemorrhagic diseases like Ebola.