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Imagine if there had been a negative outcome. Like they went into a vegetative state.

News at 6: "Poor Black People In Third World Country Maimed by Being Used As Guinea Pigs for American Pharmaceutical Company."

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We discussed this over lunch. Ebola's one of the (fortunately) few diseases that have a quick, negative outcome. So, faced with "death in hours or days", risk management is altered. So, taking something that might not work (die quick), kill you (die quick) or give you more than hours or days to live seems like a good gamble. Or at least not a bad one.

This is the plot to a movie I have seen, though I can't recall its name.

The Constant Gardner. Also a book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_experimentation_in_Afri...

Influenced "The Constant Gardener," based on a John le Carré novel.

The Constant Gardener, after a John Le Carre book.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0387131/

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