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Ebola From Belgium To Congo!

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By Johan Dongen Medical research and investigation revealed that many countries were actively engaged in human experimentation. But an American scientist who frequently appears after the Second World War is the USA army captain Daniƫl Carleton Gajdusek. He visited from 1948 till 1954 respectively, on behalf of the US army command post-war Germany , Czechoslovakia , Congo/Zaire, Finland , South Korea , Crimea, and the former Yugoslavia , while he was a staff member of the Institut Pasteur in Iran from 1952 to 1953. During this period he always was involved in Haemorrhagic viruses, nowadays know as Ebola. Moreover, he discovered an Ebola-like virus at his residence Prospect Hill and of course named the virus after it. Lee, PW; Amyx, HL; Gajdusek, DC; Yanagihara, RT; Goldgaber, D; Gibbs, CJ Jr. (1982). "New hemorrhagic fever with the renal syndrome-related virus in rodents in the United States ". Lancet. (8312): 1405. Many names are given to hemorrhagic viruses mostly called af...