{"id":3837,"date":"2015-01-01T15:44:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2015-01-01T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:44:32","slug":"weaponized-ebola-isis-militants-said-to-contract-deadly-virus-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3837","title":{"rendered":"Weaponized Ebola? ISIS Militants Said To Contract Deadly Virus | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weaponized Ebola? ISIS Militants Said To Contract Deadly Virus | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Forget targeted US airstrikes, ISIS faces a new existential threat.<\/em>\u00a0Citing an unnamed source in a Mosul hospital,\u00a0Iraq’s official pro-government newspaper, al Sabaah,<\/a>\u00a0said\u00a0Ebola arrived in Mosul from “terrorists” who came “from several countries” and Afric<\/strong>a.\u00a0Mashable further confirms,<\/a>\u00a0three outlets reported that Ebola showed up at a hospital in Mosul. For now, it’s unclear if any disease experts or doctors in Mosul are even able to test for the Ebola virus; but it would mark the first time the virus had been detected in an area controlled by ISIS, a group that\u00a0doesn’t embrace science and modern medicine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Reports that Islamic State militants in Mosul have contracted Ebola swirled though Iraqi media sources on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/strong>World Health Organization officials said they haven’t confirmed the cases, but the organization has reached out to offer assistance.<\/p>\n

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“We have no official notification from [the Iraqi government] that it is Ebola,”<\/strong>\u00a0Christy Feig, WHO’s director of communications told Mashable.<\/p>\n

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Feig added that WHO is in the process of reaching out to government officials in Iraq to see if they need help investigating the cases, a task that could be a challenge, given the restrictions that would come with operating in ISIS-controlled territory.<\/p>\n

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Weaponized Ebola? ISIS Militants Said To Contract Deadly Virus | Zero Hedge. Forget targeted US airstrikes, ISIS faces a new existential threat.\u00a0Citing an unnamed source in a Mosul hospital,\u00a0Iraq’s official pro-government newspaper, al Sabaah,\u00a0said\u00a0Ebola arrived in Mosul from “terrorists” who came “from several countries” and Africa.\u00a0Mashable further confirms,\u00a0three outlets reported that Ebola showed up at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[223,232,446,2300,878],"class_list":["post-3837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-isis","tag-mosul","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}