According
to Natural
News, The Canadian Press (CP) has stated that blood samples believed to
be infected with the deadly virus were stolen recently by bandits during a
highway robbery when they stopped a taxi in the Ebola-ridden West African
country of Guinea.
As
the CP reported, officials are attempting to retrieve the potential bio-weapon:
Authorities
publicly appealed on national radio Friday to the unidentified robbers to hand
over the samples that were stolen from the taxi during its 265-kilometre
(165-mile) trek on winding rural roads from the central Kankan prefecture to a
test site in southern Gueckedou.
Ebola blood samples can prove to be dangerous bio-weapons if they fall in the wrong hands!
The
samples were harbored in tightly wrapped vials and placed in a cooler bag. They
were being transported in the care of a courier with the Red Cross who was
among nine passengers sharing a single taxi when it was stopped by three
bandits riding a motor bike near the town of Kissidougou, according to local Red
Cross officials.
The
CP reported that the bandits forced the taxi's occupants out of the vehicle,
and then took their cell phones, jewelry, cash and other valuables, firing
weapons into the air while demanding the cooler bag, according to Saa Mamady
Leno, a Red Cross official in Gueckedou. Police later questioned the courier,
Abubakar Donzo.
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A
Guinea Red Cross spokesman, Faya Etienne Tolno, told the CP that the
organization was short of transport vehicles, so officials turned to using a
taxi for transport of the tainted samples. The report said no one was injured
in the theft, which occurred on a route known for banditry.
"We
don't understand why they stole the blood sample. Perhaps they thought there
was cash hidden in the flask," Tolno told the CP.
The
head of patient care for the national Ebola response coordination committee,
Guinea Dr. Barry Moumie, told The Associated Press that officials "have
informed the security services."
"If
these thieves handle this blood," he noted, "it will be
dangerous."
"I
can assure you, however, that the sample-transportation procedures will now be
strengthened to avoid such disappointments," he added, as reported by
Britain's Daily Mail.
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