FOI Request - Purification of Ebola, HIV, Smallpox Virus

Request 101003218754

Description of Requested Records:

All studies and /or reports from anywhere in the world describing the purification of
1. the alleged ''Ebola virus'' (aka Ebola virus disease  and Ebola hemorrhagic fever, including Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus, Taï Forest ebolavirus, Zaire ebolavirus, and Bombali ebolavirus)
2. the alleged ''Human Immunodeficiency Virus''  
3. the alleged ''variola virus'' (aka  smallpox virus)
directly from a sample taken from a diseased human, where the patient sample was not first combined with any other source of genetic material (i.e. monkey kidney cells aka Vero cells; fetal bovine serum).

Clarification of Request
Please note I am not requesting studies/reports where researchers failed to purify the suspected ''virus'' and instead:

    *  cultured something, and/or
    *  performed an amplification test (i.e. PCR), and/or
    *  fabricated a ''genome'' from millions of sequences (allegedly) detected in an impure substance, and/or
    *  produced electron microscopy images of unpurified things.

I am already aware that according to virus theory a ''virus'' requires host cells in order to replicate, and am not requesting records that describe replication of a ''virus'' without host cells. Nor am I requesting records that describe a strict fulfillment of Koch's Postulates, or records that describe a suspected ''virus'' floating in a vacuum, or private patient information.

I simply require records that describe purification (separation of the alleged virus from everything else in the patient sample, as per standard laboratory practices for the purification of other very small things).

Please note that my request includes any study/report matching the above description authored by anyone, anywhere.

Response 13-02-2023

No information held. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.