Ebola

===Weaponisation===
''Ebolavirus'' is classified as a [[Biosafety level#Levels|biosafety level 4]] agent, as well as a [[Bioterrorism#Category A|Category A bioterrorism]] agent by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<ref name="Ansari2014" /><ref name="MacNeil2012">{{Cite journal |vauthors=MacNeil A, Rollin PE |date=June 2012 |title=Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers: neglected tropical diseases? |journal=PLOS Negl Trop Dis |volume=6 |issue=6 |pages=e1546 |doi=10.1371/journal.pntd.0001546 |pmc=3385614 |pmid=22761967 |doi-access=free }}</ref> It has the potential to be weaponised for use in [[biological warfare]],<ref name="pmid11988060">{{Cite journal |display-authors=6 |vauthors=Borio L, Inglesby T, Peters CJ, Schmaljohn AL, Hughes JM, Jahrling PB, Ksiazek T, Johnson KM, Meyerhoff A, O'Toole T, Ascher MS, Bartlett J, Breman JG, Eitzen EM, Hamburg M, Hauer J, Henderson DA, Johnson RT, Kwik G, Layton M, Lillibridge S, Nabel GJ, Osterholm MT, Perl TM, Russell P, Tonat K |date=May 2002 |title=Hemorrhagic fever viruses as biological weapons: medical and public health management |journal=Journal of the American Medical Association |volume=287 |issue=18 |pages=2391–405 |doi=10.1001/jama.287.18.2391 |pmid=11988060}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Salvaggio MR, Baddley JW |date=July 2004 |title=Other viral bioweapons: Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever |journal=Dermatologic Clinics |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=291–302, vi |doi=10.1016/j.det.2004.03.003 |pmid=15207310}}</ref> and was investigated by [[Biopreparat]] for such use, but might be difficult to prepare as a [[weapon of mass destruction]] because the virus becomes ineffective quickly in open air.<ref name="Zubray">{{Cite book | vauthors = Zubray G |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwkVgNPRnKoC&pg=PA73 |title=Agents of Bioterrorism: Pathogens and Their Weaponization |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0231518130 |location=New York |pages=73–74 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504004715/https://books.google.com/books?id=AwkVgNPRnKoC&pg=PA73 |archive-date=4 May 2016 |url-status=live |name-list-style=vanc }}</ref> Fake emails pretending to be Ebola information from the WHO or the Mexican government have, in 2014, been misused to spread computer malware.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 October 2014 |title=Malicious Ebola-Themed Emails Are on the Rise |url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/malicious-ebola-themed-emails-are-on-the-rise/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707125209/https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/malicious-ebola-themed-emails-are-on-the-rise/?action=click&contentCollection=US%20Open&region=Article&module=Promotron |archive-date=7 July 2017 |access-date=26 October 2014 |website=The New York Times }}</ref> The BBC reported in 2015 that "North Korean state media has suggested the disease was created by the U.S. military as a biological weapon."<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 February 2015 |title=North Korea bans foreigners from Pyongyang marathon over Ebola |work=BBC News Online |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31581935 |url-status=live |access-date=23 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224061401/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31581935 |archive-date=24 February 2015}}</ref>