Ebola: From Bioweapon to Pandemic

Ebola's exponential spread has sparked fears that terrorists may seek to turn the virus into a biological weapon. Concerns that the deadly Ebola virus, which has claimed over 5,000 lives in West Africa in recent months, can be used by as biological weapon are far from being groundless, Russia’s Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) said. “Such possibility exists,” Vladimir Nikiforov, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the FMBA’s Institution of Advanced Training, acknowledged at a press conference in Moscow. “Actually, this virus can be used in the form of a spray, which can lead to very big trouble,” the disease expert is cited as saying by the RIA-Novosti news agency.