Saturday: Ebola outbreak in Central Africa will be a nightmare to contain, experts warn
Saturday: Ebola outbreak now third largest recorded and spreading rapidly
The journey of humanity is sculpted by challenges and healing. When I first read about Ebola - I thought it was a plague that would take out much of humanity as End Times unfold. Then along came COVID-19 and its variants, so I thought I was wrong and yet fast-moving Ebola always seems to resurface whether ignored by the public or taken seriously.
Ebola first surfaced in 1976 during two simultaneous outbreaks in Nzara, Sudan, and Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). The virus was identified near the Ebola River, which ultimately gave the disease its name. Since that discovery, Ebola has appeared sporadically across parts of Africa, sometimes erupting into deadly outbreaks that remind the world how vulnerable humanity remains to emerging viruses.
The 2014-2016 West African outbreak was the moment Ebola truly captured global attention. The scale, speed, and devastating mortality rate transformed it from what many viewed as a distant regional crisis into a frightening glimpse of what a future pandemic could look like. For many of us, that outbreak was a warning - a realization that in an interconnected world, no disease remains isolated for long.
While Covid spread globally with extraordinary ease, Ebola evokes a different kind of fear because of its extreme lethality and the haunting imagery associated with its outbreaks. It stands as a reminder that nature continues to evolve alongside humanity, and that future pandemics may emerge in forms we are not fully prepared to face.
Today we also face Hantavirus, the return of Measles - old, new, and as yet undiscovered pathogens as the human narrative exists in a reality of challenges and healing - a pattern that repeats until the end of time.
Other pathogens that caught my attention were the reemergence of microorganisms that have long been buried under the permafrost. Thawing Arctic and Antarctic permafrost acts as a literal time capsule. It preserves ancient bacteria and giant viruses that have been dormant for millennia that modern immune systems and current medical science has never encountered.
As I read and post about awakened ancient pathogens - it makes me wonder if they were linked to unknown extinction level events in Earth's History.
Were they of extraterrestrial origins - such as something that fell to Earth from space - or did they have a connection to extraterrestrial visitations in Earth's history? I really don't think there's enough time left to answer these questions - nor is information shared by ET's going to fill in the gaps.
As deep-sea temperatures rise, and deep-sea mining and commercial dredging disrupts ancient ocean floors, we risk exposing ecosystems and humanity to completely novel biological agents.
During periods of uncertainty, people tend to look for reassurance that public health decisions are grounded in science, transparency, preparedness, and clear communication. This often is not the case to the extent they seek answers outside of western medicine.
Also worrying is RFK as Secretary of Health and Human Services because of his long history of controversial statements regarding vaccines, public health policy, and scientific consensus. Supporters see him as someone challenging entrenched systems, while critics worry that skepticism toward established medical science could undermine public trust during future health crises.
Let's not forget about AI as both positive and negative in the fields of medicine and scientific research. It's not by accident that AI is part of today's programming to figure things out. There are no accidents. Everything is pre-programmed for experience.