Russia says US biologists may be behind Ebola spread in central Africa in 2022

A Central African country investigating the possibility of artificially spreading the Ebola virus in September 2022 said one version pointed to "careless handling of pathogens by US military biologists working in the region." "

Ebola virus disease (EVD), known as one of the deadliest viral diseases, was first described in 1976 after two consecutive outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in different regions of central Africa. Specifically, the first outbreak occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in a village near the Ebola River, hence the name Ebola virus, and the second outbreak occurred in present-day South Sudan, about 500 miles away. (850 kilometers).

Health officials initially thought it was a one-off event related to an infected person traveling between the two locations, but it was later revealed that the two outbreaks were caused by two genetically different viruses: Zaire Ebola Virus and Sudan Ebola Virus. . However, after extensive research, it was found that this discovery led scientists to conclude that the virus came from two different sources and spread independently to people in each of the

affected areas.