Is the African Zombie disease a bio-weapon test?

Since the 1960's there have been a series of extremely virulent and deadly diseases appearing across central Africa. These have included so of the most deadly viral pathogens ever found including various strains of Ebola, Hanta and unusual strains of Malaria. The standard World Health Organisation explanation for this is that as African countries expand in population and therefore in the amount of land that they need, people are exploring deeper and deeper into the heavily forested interiors and encountering these new strains of disease from interaction with mammalian disease vectors. There are even suggestion that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS originated in this way from interaction with an infected colony of monkeys in Zaire. It is this latter suggestion that is of particular interest because there is also a suggestion from some respected virologists that HIV shows signs of having been engineered rather than being a natural mutation. There is no doubt that the United States, as well as Russia and China have had active disease research facilities, not just to find cures, but to develop new strains, and effectively to weaponise diseases for use in combat situations. This is in spite of the International convention banning the use of biological weapons that has been discussed at length by the international community since it's original drafting in 1972.

It is also known that the US and Russia have actively tested pathogens on their own citizens both knowingly and unwittingly, revealed by court disclosures in the 1970's and '80's of tests of biological, chemical and radiological weapons on volunteer military personnel at Fort Bragg and under Project Monarch and on non-voluntary uninformed citizens in the Southern States, most infamously in the deliberate mistreatment and lack of treatment of victims of Syphilis in Georgia as far back as the 1920's. Then there are the acknowledged tests of biological and chemical weapons in Vietnam, part of the same project that weaponised the defoliant Agent Orange for use in combat environments. So, there is good evidence that government agencies, either with or without government approval have actively refined, modified and used these pathogens, and there is strong circumstantial evidence that this is still continuing, with the much more recent Anthrax attacks in the US thought to have been actioned by a rogue researcher, and the Sarin nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway by the Om Shinrikiu religious cult.

But what does this have to do with the reports resurfacing of an ongoing major disease problem in Central Africa that appears to be turning children into Zombies. Well, lets have a look at the situation. We have a disease of unknown origin that appeared in the 1960's that appears to be rather specifically targeted at children up to the age of 19, that causes mental degeneration, epilepsy like symptoms, a highly indicative “nodding” condition, absences, wandering and in some cases, violence and arson. We have a disease that the World Health Organisation has so far been unable to isolate and understand, with no clear information about transmission or origin, and no current treatment other than symptom alleviation. This matches rather well with the previous cases of man made pathogens released into the wider environment. Of course, the big question is whether there is any link between this strange event and the recent zombie style attacks seen in Miami and Georgia in the United States. It will be interesting to see whether anything makes its way into the media reports on this one.