Comment Re:How isolated? (Score 1) 53
Do you really think they were never visited by a missionary?
Missionary? More likely "Missionary Style"! What is the first thing that they do, when an advanced culture meets a primitive culture? They mutually exchange sexually transmitted diseases!
Who knows? Maybe the villagers were visited by some folks, who didn't want to tell the government where they were, and what they were up to? Like, drug dealers, illegal good miners or illegal loggers?
Or how about contamination that occurred during the testing? People working with Ebola patients were supposed to how to isolate themselves from getting infected. And gee, looked what happened?