The DRC Ebola crisis is a moral failure as much as a medical one — running a placebo-controlled trial on frontline health workers facing a 40% death rate is indefensible when experimental antivirals have already shown promise in animal studies. Foreign doctors get evacuated and treated after needlestick injuries while local medics get a coin flip, and that double standard should outrage anyone paying attention. The Ebo-Pep trial can still succeed scientifically without putting the most exposed workers at unnecessary risk.