Searching for something else (because a query on a specific illness raises all sort of alarms from the health authorities that mine deeply into such thing for the sake of public health and tracking the drift of disease), I came across an interesting training module, from April of 2009, which curiously captured the sentiment and official disposition of an exercise in outbreaks a few years hence.
A government sanctioned primer on Ebola and other insidious hemorrhagic viral infections, with doctors as its intended audience, devoted quite a lot of the lessons to the subject of biological warfare and how laboratories formerly under the control of the Soviet Union could be easily compromised and stocks of deadly viruses could be released. There was a spate of citations on how the Soviets had successfully weaponised the Marburg virus and a similar aerosol method could be used for Ebola. Such were the fears, however packaged (I could not find an updated version), when a whole barnyard of flues were passing through and no there are no such provocative musings, despite the blackballing and demonising of Russia, and like speculation is limited to local witchdoctors and a lingering distrust of Western-sponsored aid-stations. A cold-comfort that was also often repeated throughout this syllabus was the fact that the stigmata of bleeding out of every orifice rarely resulted in enough blood-loss to be fatal—never mind that the integrity of one's vascular system had degraded to such a point.
