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		nodata on May 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in trial What if the side effect of the untested treatment leads to everyone in the hospital becoming infected or dying?

darkFunction on May 15, 2014 [–]

Well in this case it's obviously different. I'm talking about actions that have consequences for the dying individual only.

nodata on May 15, 2014 | [–]

They injected a cancer patient with 100 billion units of the measles virus, this is new stuff. It may have unintended consequences.

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