US agency offers legal immunity to Ebola vaccine makers

So this is how the Zombie apocalypse begins...

experimental vaccine == theoretical solution

pretty sure my project and QA mgrs would not go for that on any given Sunday.

Well, by definition all vaccines start out as experimental ones.

This action is designed to protect companies in their initial Phase 1 safety testings, which for obvious reasons is done with 1st World volunteers before they move to Africa.

Vaccine engineering is also a fairly well understood technology by now.

This is beyond scary... Tuskegee experiment, anyone? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

So on the slight chance the people involved are seriously unethical, you're willing to dice with a disease that could well kill billions prior to discovery/proof of effectiveness, mass production, and mass distribution of a vaccine, all together which will take years at best?