The last Ebola outbreak in West Africa was only five years ago. But in the meantime, two of the four subjects died. It wasn’t because of Ebola, and it definitely wasn’t because the International Vaccine Institute harvested their blood serum. They just died because they were old. As such, Jason, the director general, was only able to reach two people when he called his subordinates after his meeting with Young-Joon. One of them also refused to donate blood.0

—I tried to convince them, but they were firm in their decision, saying that they weren’t going to do it anymore. I gave up because I couldn’t force them.1

Jason, who called Young-Joon, said with a sigh.0

—We need at least five liters of blood to get enough blood serum. We failed last time with twenty liters.0

“How much blood do you draw at once?”0

—About fifty milliliters is standard for vaccine development research purposes. But in previous experiments, we got around five hundred milliliters like a standard blood donation.0

Jason said.0

—But even if we do that every month, it would take at least ten months, since we only have one subject now.0

“That will take too long.”0

Young-Joon frowned.0

—Right.0

Jason replied.0

If Jason was doing this alone, he would have waited ten months to draw all the blood, as Ebola wasn’t spreading that badly since the outbreak in 2014. He wondered why Michelle asked...0