Smuggling Ebola on forged US Military Letterhead

From: Germany Berlin
To: Secretary of Defense | Secretary of State
The recipient in the USA is, according to the enclosed end use certificate, the Department of the Army "US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)" Fort Detrick, Maryland.

An approval here can only be issued if an improper end use in association with the development or production of biologic weapons approaches can be foreclosed with a probability approaching certainty.

The enclosed end use certificate is on the letterhead of the U.S. Army. The required official seal is missing, however.


Ebola detected in a skin swab

Assessment of the Risk of Ebola Virus Transmission from Bodily Fluids and Fomites

Clinical specimens. Fifty-four specimens from 26 patients, 12 (46%) of whom died, were collected (table 1). Sixteen clinical specimens from 12 patients were positive by virus culture (4 specimens) and/or RT-PCR (16 specimens), including saliva (8 of 16), skin swab (1 of 11), stool (2 of 4), semen (1 of 2), breast milk (2 of 2), tears (1 of 1), and nasal blood (1 of 1). No virus was found in urine (0 of 11), vomit (0 of 2), sputum (0 of 2), sweat (0 of 1),




USAMRAID: Smuggling Ebola on forged US Military Letterhead
http://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09BERLIN1588_a.html


2007 Bausch: Ebola detected in a skin swab
https://web.archive.org/web/20140703120827/http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/196/Supplement_2/S142.full