The first U.S. cases of Ebola have spawned a flurry of conspiracy theories about the deadly virus – from Chris Brown’s opinion that the disease is a form of population control, to the allegation that the Obama administration purposefully allowed Ebola to jump to America from Africa, to the belief that the disease doesn’t exist at all.
News channels and filled with wall-to-wall Ebola coverage and there have reportedly been at least 5,000 false alarms over the disease since the first case was confirmed in the United States on September 30.
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly was one of the latest to jump on the Ebola conspiracy bandwagon, accusing President Barack Obama of facilitating the entry of the virus to enter the U.S. so that the country would be more like Africa.
Right-wing radio talk show host Michael Savage - who has a doctorate in epidemiology - has expressed his opinion that Ebola entered the United States because of Obama’s open-borders policy.
Savage has also suggested that Ebola reaching the United States is part of a plot by Obama – whom he referred to as “President Obola” - to purposely infect the nation. “There’s not a sane reason to take 4,000 troops and send them into a hot Ebola zone without expecting at least one of them to come back with Ebola, unless you want to infect the nation with Ebola,” he said.
The first confirmed case of Ebola in the United States was diagnosed in Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of the disease earlier this month. Two nurses who treated Duncan at a Dallas hospital became infected and are currently being treated in isolation.
Overall, the virus has killed more than 4,000 people and was named the largest epidemic in history by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has predicted that the virus could infect 1.4 million in Liberia and Sierra Leone alone by the end of January.
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