Have ISIS soldiers contracted the Ebola virus?

According to news filtering in from Mosul, Iraq, an undisclosed number of ISIS militants who are displaying signs of the Ebola virus attended hospital for treatment.

WHO is currently investigating these reports and is yet to confirm them.  According to WHO Director of Communications, Charity Feig, they have reached out to officials in ISIS-held area to offer help.  Unfortunately UN workers are currently banned from entry ISIS controlled areas in Iraq and Syria.

 

Ahmed Rudaini, an health official told a news site Al-Maalomah that Mosul doesn’t have the technological capacity to diagnose Ebola virus.  That it is only Baghdad who can do that.

Investigation has it that ISIS has not recruited fighters from any of the country severely affected by the disease.  Its African members are primarily from Algeria, Egypt, Morrocco, Sudan and Tunisia.

 

Forbes also reported in October 2014 that in the event that ISIS does have Ebola, they could use it as a biological terror technique.  It states that members could contract the virus on purpose and then go to foreign contires to infect other.

ISIS militants has be control on the city of Mosul since June 2014.