Did the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Originate with an NIH-Funded Lab in Sierra Leone?

The Kenema Laboratory in Sierra Leone was run by familiar figures from the Covid Coverup.

It’s been estimated that more than 70% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. But many don’t realize that the new mRNA technology was first employed in the development of new vaccines during the 2018 outbreaks of Ebola in West Africa. 

Previously, live-attenuated vaccines were used during the earlier, more deadly 2014-2015 outbreaks of Ebola in West Africa, and while they proved to be quite effective, high costs, cold storage requirements and difficulty in adapting to new virus variants caused many production issues. These problems led NIH to claim, “There is no commercially available vaccine against Ebola.” Note that NIH didn’t say there was no vaccine. That’s because a viable Ebola vaccine, Ervebo, already existed. But it was not “commercially” viable. Meaning profitable. This is where the new mRNA vaccines entered the picture.

The technology behind the mRNA “vaccines” was actually developed decades back, but was not deployed because of the inherent instability of RNA. As a paper from John Hopkins notes, “The biggest challenge was that mRNA would be taken up by the body and quickly degraded before it could “deliver” its message—the RNA transcript—and be read into proteins in the cells.” 

But a solution to this problem came from “advances in nanotechnology: the development of fatty droplets (lipid nanoparticles) that wrapped the mRNA like a bubble, which allowed entry into the cells. As a result, the new mRNA technology was used to develop cheaper Ebola vaccines in 2018. 

Increased profitability is why the attempt to move towards an mRNA version began. But the problems of scale, costs and profits still remained. As John Hopkins pointed out, “The first mRNA vaccines using these fatty envelopes were developed against the deadly Ebola virus, but since that virus is only found in a limited number of African countries, it had no commercial development in the U.S.”

From the viewpoint of the pharma companies, they had this newly improved mRNA technology that they theoretically could use to make much cheaper “vaccine alternatives” - remember that mRNA shots are not truly vaccines - but they had no large, commercially viable markets in which to sell this new technology. And of course, there were no long-term safety studies of the mRNA vaccines. In other words, if things continued as they had pre-Covid, it would have likely been years, perhaps even decades, before mRNA vaccines would have been accepted or used in the Western world.

We bring up the early forays of mRNA Ebola vaccines for two reasons. The first is to highlight the obvious point that the use of mRNA technology in the Ebola outbreaks in West Africa led to a pent-up desire on the part of Big Pharma to to employ the same technology in much larger, commercially viable markets. The second reason is because we wanted to provide you with a closer look at the Ebola outbreaks themselves.

As it turns out, there are some very real questions as to how these Ebola outbreaks came about. And to make matters even more interesting, some very familiar names come up in the Ebola outbreak stories. The 2014-2016 Zaire Ebola outbreak in West Africa was by far the largest and deadliest in history with more than 29,000 people becoming infected resulting in over 11,000 deaths.

The origin of that outbreak has been blamed on a two-year old boy from a remote village in Guinea who was said to have become infected after playing with bats in a local tree. However, there was a significant problem with this theory of zoonotic or animal to human transmission that the studies seemed to gloss over. None of the live bats that were captured from the area had any trace of Ebola.

The zoonotic narrative of the little boy also fails to account for how the outbreak of Zaire Ebola suddenly emerged in Sierra Leone and in Liberia - almost two thousand miles away from its natural home in the Congo Basin.

In the first of what will be several surprising coincidences, the person who led the study that determined the Ebola outbreak came from bats – Fabian Leendertz – also happens to be one of the authors of the fraudulent World Health Organization report which claimed that Covid came from nature.

All of this has led to some speculation that the 2014 Zaire Ebola outbreak may actually have come from a lab. As it turns out, a lab that was involved in the study of viral hemorrhagic diseases, a class of diseases that includes Ebola, existed in the Sierra Leone region where the Ebola outbreak first appeared.

The 2014 Ebola outbreak was “the first proven emergence of the Zaire Ebola virus in West Africa”. Which is strange because Zaire Ebola had traditionally been found only in the Congo Basin - more than 3,000 kilometers from Guinea and Sierra Leone. Ebola, although deadly, is not highly contagious and requires direct contact with bodily fluids of an infected host. It is not conducive to widespread geographic contagion. 

There’s another problem as well. Genomic sequencing and phylogenetic analysis proved that the 2014 outbreak resulted from a single jump into humans. Researchers Sam Husseini and Jonathan Latham note that Zoonotic outbreaks, including most past Ebola outbreaks, “typically feature multiple jumps to humans from an animal source. Single jumps, however, are consistent with lab origins and are often considered a red flag for that possibility.” It’s worth noting that “Zaire Ebola is the species favored by civilian and military research labs for studying Ebola-type viruses” because of its high mortality rate and concurrent biowarfare potential.

All of this brings us to the Kenema laboratory in Sierra Leone that was run by some very familiar figures from the Covid Natural Origin coverup. As a 2022 report by Husseini and Latham noted, “After Ebola was first confirmed by laboratory tests in mid-March 2014, persistent rumors in the region linked the outbreak to a US-run research laboratory in Kenema, Sierra Leone” which conducted studies of viral hemorrhagic diseases, a class of diseases that includes Ebola. 

The Kenema Lab has been operated by the US-based Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium or VHFC since 2010. The president of VHFC is Robert Garry. The vice president of VHFC is Kristian Andersen. As you likely recall, both men were direct participants in Fauci’s secret teleconference where the Covid Natural Origin was hatched. 

Both men privately told Fauci and the rest of the group that they believed Covid originated from a lab while publicly claiming that Covid had a natural origin. Both men were co-authors of Proximal Origin, the paper used by Fauci and the media to dismiss the possibility of a lab leak. And both men were the co-recipients of a new $8.9 million, five-year grant in May 2020 that established the West African Research Network for Infectious Diseases.

In 2011, Reuters profiled the Kenema Lab, referring to it as “an outpost of the U.S. government's "war on terror," funded by a surge in bio-defense spending since the airplane and anthrax attacks on New York and Washington a decade ago.” That same Reuters article also noted the huge safety lapses present at the Kenema Lab, stating that “In Kenema it is impossible to create the same levels of protection for researchers that they would experience in a western lab. In the United States, Lassa virus is handled in biosafety level four facilities, where researchers wear “space suits” - but in Kenema measures include goggles, gloves and masks.”

When speculation of a lab leak as the cause of the Ebola outbreak began in mid-2014, Garry denounced the stories as conspiracy theories, saying that “We were there working 10 years and then Ebola came here. We’re not here to turn Lassa and Ebola into a kind of superweapon. It can do that on its own.” In 2022, Garry wrote an article in which he claimed that “we did not have EBOV in our laboratory and therefore could not have released or engineered it.'' But there’s several problems with Garry’s claim. 

There’s no question that the Kenema Lab was doing work on the deadly Lassa virus - and VHFC’s own website acknowledges ongoing work with Ebola at the Kenema Lab. But more importantly, Garry’s statement has been directly contradicted by Kristian Andersen who admitted on a podcast that “we had been studying Ebola in Kenema in Sierra Leone, and lo and behold Ebola emerged just a few miles from there in 2014.”

Although Andersen admitted that the outbreak was “just a few miles from there,” he quickly tried to claim that Ebola emerged one hundred miles away. Andersen also tried to pretend that any assertions that a leak from the Kenema lab caused the Ebola outbreak were post-Covid, when in fact, this claim had been made by a number of scientists ever since the 2014 Ebola outbreak began.

Nor is this the first time that Andersen tried to shift blame for the Ebola outbreak away from his lab. In 2015, Andersen gave a speech on the Ebola Outbreak at the European Bioinformatics Institute where he attempted to blame the Ebola outbreak on migrating bats as a means to explain the 3,000 kilometers between the Zaire Ebola virus’s natural home in the Congo and the outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone (21:59 - 22:33). 

It was this exact explanation, migrating bats, that was later used to explain how Covid showed up in Wuhan, more than 1,000 miles from the natural bat reservoirs. Of course neither of these attempts provide any explanation as to how a virus would travel in bats for 1,000 plus miles without leaving a trace along the way. We found it notable that Bill Gates also claimed that Ebola came from migrating bats while simultaneously claiming that migrating bats, rather than a lab leak, was the origin of Covid. 

We’ve also always wondered why Andersen was brought in by Fauci to run cover for the lab leak in Wuhan. He was a recipient of a lot of grant money from Fauci BUT he had very little experience with coronaviruses. A screenshot from Andersen’s site in February 2020 made no mention of coronaviruses. But that was suddenly updated one month later to include them as a specialty. 

Regardless of what you think of the evidence presented here, one thing is clear: Andersen did have previous experience defending accusations of a lab leak while simultaneously promoting a natural origin for a major pandemic. 

Now, before ending, we would like to point out two other events that would seem to tie in to our earlier discussion on mRNA vaccines. On September 10, 2019, just as Covid began, John Hopkins published an 84-page study titled “Preparedness for a High-Impact Respiratory Pathogen Pandemic.” In other words, the perfect description of Covid.

The report warned that “were a high-impact respiratory pathogen to emerge, either naturally or as the result of accidental or deliberate release, it would likely have significant public health, economic, social, and political consequences.” 

The report was commissioned by and prepared for the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, a WHO-related organization of 15 politicians and scientists. Of the 15 board members, three prominent members jumped out: Anthony Fauci, Jeremy Farrar and Gao Fu. Fauci and Farrar co-organized the secret teleconference on February 1st, 2020 that created the natural origin narrative. Gao Fu is the Director of China’s CDC. 

The report noted that “Nucleic acid (RNA and DNA)–based vaccines are widely seen as highly promising and potentially rapid vaccine development pathways, though they have not yet broken through with licensed products.” The report recommended that mRNA vaccines should be both pursued and funded. It also recommended that Agencies fast-track mRNAs in “emergencies” and push for “surge production” of the mRNA vaccines.