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Message Subject U.S. Patent #: 20120251502. Ebola Patent Really? WTF?!
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the inventors

Jonathan S. Towner, Stuart T. Nichol, James A. Comer, Thomas G. Ksiazek, Pierre E. Rollin

who are these sick f*cks?
 Quoting: Rev Woo-Woo


They didn't invent the virus. It was discovered in Bundibugyo, Uganda during a outbreak from Nov through Jan.
They isolated the bug and discovered it was at least 40% different from Ivory Coast Ebola, so they claimed the bug, deposited it in the CDC and named it.
Now they use the information to develop vaccines, at least according to the patent

There was a gene sequence section that I couldn't follow, but other than that it's pretty easy to read.

From the patent:
The invention provides the isolated human Ebola (hEbola) viruses denoted as Bundibugyo (EboBun) deposited with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”; Atlanta, Ga., United States of America) on Nov. 26, 2007 and accorded an accession number 200706291. This deposit was
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