In January 2023, U.S. Right to Know began submitting public records requests in pursuit of data from public institutions in an effort to discover what is known about the origins of the largest outbreak of Ebola virus in history, which afflicted West Africa in 2014, claiming more than 11,000 lives in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Below are documents we obtained during this investigation.
We are also filing freedom of information (FOI) lawsuits as part of our efforts to uncover what our government knows of the origins of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. These lawsuits are also posted below.
For information on the inadequate evidence on the origin of the outbreak, see our fact sheet.
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) records
Cross and Geisbert emails #2 (4.5.24) (220 pages)
Cross and Geisbert emails #1 (4.5.24) (40 pages)
National Institutes of Health (NIH) records
NIH – Tulane contracts, MOUs, Ministry of Health approvals (First produced to Emmanuel Freudenthal) (4.5.24) (822 pages)
NIAID contracting officer Lim Nguyen emails #1 (4.5.24) (70 pages)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) records
CDC records #1 (4.5.24) (5 pages)
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) records
Austin Demby emails #1 (4.5.24) (391 pages)
FOI lawsuits filed
(1) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: On August 14, 2023, USRTK filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for violating the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California, seeks records for two FOIA requests, filed on January 24, 2023 and January 31, 2023. The FOIA requests to HHS and CDC seek communications to or from one former HHS employee and four CDC employees relating to the origin of the Ebola outbreak. Case 3:23-cv-04120.
