I'm curious who foot the bill for all this.
These people were "missionaries" - does that mean they were over there proselytizing? Did they have any right to be there?
These people were "missionaries" - does that mean they were over there proselytizing? Did they have any right to be there?
I can't even begin to wrap my mind around you asking if they had the right to be there. They weren't there on vacation, they felt an obligation to assist those in need who they were uniquely qualified to help.
There's a pretty long and often controversial history around European & American missionaries in Africa (both purely religious missionaries and hybrid humanitarian/religious missionaries), so I can see the question coming up. However I believe in this case it was a sanctioned trip complying with local law and overseen by international medical organizations.
However, their project is not really going to be able to compete with companies like Tekmira who have begun human testing, having a much higher efficacy in Primates (and likely humans) and are simply further along.
Ebola would unlikely be a block buster drug for any company - however, it allows them to research technologies and systems for other, more profitable things.