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I don't know if there is a topic about it here, I tried to find one, but I couldn't find it, so here I am creating this one! 
I have been discussing with friends about Progenitor, Mother virus and all this virus stuff from RE series. And then the idea came out and I decided to read something about the Ebola virus, known as a filovirus type.
As we all know, Ebola is mentioned on Wesker's Report II. Umbrella was researching the virus.
Here is some part of Wesker's Report II on which Ebola is mentioned.
Now, regarding the core of our question. What does Ebola have in common with the viruses we know from Resident Evil?
I have selected here a few points they have in common, like symptoms of the disease and the means of infection.
- The symptons of the disease, one week after the infection, are: the pacient develops an hemorragic fever and starts to bleed through mucous membranes, such as eyes, nose, mouth and anus.
- The viral replication goes on and on. The virus destroys the blood vessels, and that is the reason for the copious bleeding. The patient, on an advenced phase of the disease, starts to bleed through vomits and diarrheas, which are known as black vomit, due to the black stains in the middle of the blood. That happens because the intestinal area is liquified and disposed with the blood. And finally the patient dies due to the high loss of blood.
- The carrier of the disease suffers radical changes on his psychological aspect: memory loss, agressive behavior, depression, vision loss.
- First filovirus was isolated on 1967 and was named as Marburg.
- Another filovirus [the Ebola virus] was identified for the first time on a region of Sudan, next to Zaire [the current Congo] on 1976.
- It is known the Ebola virus is caught from direct contact with blood, secretions, organs or sperm from infected individuals.
FIRST CONCLUSIONS:
- That part from WR2 is dated from 1978, two years after the first sight of Ebola in Africa.
- The symptoms made me remind of that guy from RE5 trailer: he bleeds through his eyes, a black blood. He becomes agressive too.
- The memory loss made me remind of reports from researchers on RE1, they say the happy memories are little by little fading away, something like that. The same goes with Jessica and Lisa Trevor after the shots they receive from the men in white coats.
- Region where the Ebola came out: Zaire, Congo, Sudan. RE5 is taking place in Africa, but where exactly in Africa?
- Just like T-Virus and other RE viruses, the Ebola infection is through direct contact with blood.
Hope you guys like this little research I've done. And sorry about my terrible english.
I have been discussing with friends about Progenitor, Mother virus and all this virus stuff from RE series. And then the idea came out and I decided to read something about the Ebola virus, known as a filovirus type.
As we all know, Ebola is mentioned on Wesker's Report II. Umbrella was researching the virus.
Here is some part of Wesker's Report II on which Ebola is mentioned.
July 31, 1978
The document that Birkin was scrutinizing so closely was a report about a new virus that had shown up in Africa. It was called "Ebola".
At this moment there were many people, all throughout the world, who were studying the Ebola Virus. However, there were two major reasons why they were studying it. To help people and...to kill them.
As you probably know, the death rate of someone infected with Ebola is 90 percent. In 10 days it quickly destroys a person's organs. Even now, there are no known ways to prevent it or cure it. It could, quite possibly, destroy a large part of the human race.
Of course even before this, due to the "Biological Weapons Prohibition Pact", it was illegal for us to study the virus as a weapon. However, even if we weren't the ones to research it, there was no proof that someone else wouldn't be doing that same thing and so it was considered acceptable for us to research it--just in case. There is a thin line in international law between what is acceptable and what is prohibited.
And so, it became necessary to research how the virus would be used as a method of prevention, not as a weapon. There really is no difference in the way in which you research a virus as a cure, however, from how you research it as a weapon.
Since the two are very similar, it is possible to pretend you are researching a cure, while in fact, be researching the virus as a weapon.
At that time, even though Birkin may have been looking at the Ebola report, he wasn't really researching the Ebola virus. The Ebola Virus had too many "weak spots".
First of all, the virus could only survive for a few days if not inside a human body. It would soon "die" if under sunlight (ultra-violet light) for too long.
Secondly, since it kills the host too quickly there isn't enough time to transfer/infect other hosts.
Finally, the virus is only transferable through direct touch and so it can be easily prevented.
Try to imagine the following: If a person who was heavily infected (the disease had spread all throughout their body) could actually stand and walk around? And, without knowing it, was in direct contact with other people, of their own accord...
What if the RNA of the Ebola Virus could actually alter a person's genetic code? And if, through that, a person was able to carry the virus without dying? What if this person had the resilience of a beast?
That is, wouldn't this person be a "living dead" whose body carried the virus? Something that could infect others, sort of like a "living biological weapon".
I guessed that we were lucky that the Ebola Virus didn't have the potential to do such things.
I wondered if we would be successful in holding on to such a virus without it getting into the wrong person's hands?
The Arklay Lab headed up by Spencer was built for that purpose, it seemed. To create a disease capable of the characteristics I listed above. Officially it was just a pharmaceutical company researching cures to viruses, but the truth is, it was really a factory for manufacturing biological weapons.
The origin of the company was based on the creation of the "Mother" virus by recombining genes.
In order to produce "biological weapons" out of this new "Mother", or “Progenitor” virus, Spencer and his team of researchers began studying "virus mutations" in order to strengthen the virus they had created.
This was known as the "T-Virus" experiment.
RNA based viruses can easily be mutated. Through those mutations, it is possible to strengthen their traits.
The reason Birkin was so interested in the Ebola Virus was that he was thinking of recombining the Ebola genes with the “Progenitor” virus to strengthen its attributes. By the time we had arrived at the research center there was already a sample of the Ebola Virus waiting for us.
The document that Birkin was scrutinizing so closely was a report about a new virus that had shown up in Africa. It was called "Ebola".
At this moment there were many people, all throughout the world, who were studying the Ebola Virus. However, there were two major reasons why they were studying it. To help people and...to kill them.
As you probably know, the death rate of someone infected with Ebola is 90 percent. In 10 days it quickly destroys a person's organs. Even now, there are no known ways to prevent it or cure it. It could, quite possibly, destroy a large part of the human race.
Of course even before this, due to the "Biological Weapons Prohibition Pact", it was illegal for us to study the virus as a weapon. However, even if we weren't the ones to research it, there was no proof that someone else wouldn't be doing that same thing and so it was considered acceptable for us to research it--just in case. There is a thin line in international law between what is acceptable and what is prohibited.
And so, it became necessary to research how the virus would be used as a method of prevention, not as a weapon. There really is no difference in the way in which you research a virus as a cure, however, from how you research it as a weapon.
Since the two are very similar, it is possible to pretend you are researching a cure, while in fact, be researching the virus as a weapon.
At that time, even though Birkin may have been looking at the Ebola report, he wasn't really researching the Ebola virus. The Ebola Virus had too many "weak spots".
First of all, the virus could only survive for a few days if not inside a human body. It would soon "die" if under sunlight (ultra-violet light) for too long.
Secondly, since it kills the host too quickly there isn't enough time to transfer/infect other hosts.
Finally, the virus is only transferable through direct touch and so it can be easily prevented.
Try to imagine the following: If a person who was heavily infected (the disease had spread all throughout their body) could actually stand and walk around? And, without knowing it, was in direct contact with other people, of their own accord...
What if the RNA of the Ebola Virus could actually alter a person's genetic code? And if, through that, a person was able to carry the virus without dying? What if this person had the resilience of a beast?
That is, wouldn't this person be a "living dead" whose body carried the virus? Something that could infect others, sort of like a "living biological weapon".
I guessed that we were lucky that the Ebola Virus didn't have the potential to do such things.
I wondered if we would be successful in holding on to such a virus without it getting into the wrong person's hands?
The Arklay Lab headed up by Spencer was built for that purpose, it seemed. To create a disease capable of the characteristics I listed above. Officially it was just a pharmaceutical company researching cures to viruses, but the truth is, it was really a factory for manufacturing biological weapons.
The origin of the company was based on the creation of the "Mother" virus by recombining genes.
In order to produce "biological weapons" out of this new "Mother", or “Progenitor” virus, Spencer and his team of researchers began studying "virus mutations" in order to strengthen the virus they had created.
This was known as the "T-Virus" experiment.
RNA based viruses can easily be mutated. Through those mutations, it is possible to strengthen their traits.
The reason Birkin was so interested in the Ebola Virus was that he was thinking of recombining the Ebola genes with the “Progenitor” virus to strengthen its attributes. By the time we had arrived at the research center there was already a sample of the Ebola Virus waiting for us.
Now, regarding the core of our question. What does Ebola have in common with the viruses we know from Resident Evil?
I have selected here a few points they have in common, like symptoms of the disease and the means of infection.
- The symptons of the disease, one week after the infection, are: the pacient develops an hemorragic fever and starts to bleed through mucous membranes, such as eyes, nose, mouth and anus.
- The viral replication goes on and on. The virus destroys the blood vessels, and that is the reason for the copious bleeding. The patient, on an advenced phase of the disease, starts to bleed through vomits and diarrheas, which are known as black vomit, due to the black stains in the middle of the blood. That happens because the intestinal area is liquified and disposed with the blood. And finally the patient dies due to the high loss of blood.
- The carrier of the disease suffers radical changes on his psychological aspect: memory loss, agressive behavior, depression, vision loss.
- First filovirus was isolated on 1967 and was named as Marburg.
- Another filovirus [the Ebola virus] was identified for the first time on a region of Sudan, next to Zaire [the current Congo] on 1976.
- It is known the Ebola virus is caught from direct contact with blood, secretions, organs or sperm from infected individuals.
FIRST CONCLUSIONS:
- That part from WR2 is dated from 1978, two years after the first sight of Ebola in Africa.
- The symptoms made me remind of that guy from RE5 trailer: he bleeds through his eyes, a black blood. He becomes agressive too.
- The memory loss made me remind of reports from researchers on RE1, they say the happy memories are little by little fading away, something like that. The same goes with Jessica and Lisa Trevor after the shots they receive from the men in white coats.
- Region where the Ebola came out: Zaire, Congo, Sudan. RE5 is taking place in Africa, but where exactly in Africa?
- Just like T-Virus and other RE viruses, the Ebola infection is through direct contact with blood.
Hope you guys like this little research I've done. And sorry about my terrible english.
I did a report on viruses for my zoology class a few semesters ago...sadly the document was lost when my computer crashed in March.
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