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\n After a long history of civil war and corruption, many Liberians didn’t trust their government’s attempts to control Ebola.<\/p>\n

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It may sound like the plot of a movie: police find a young man dead with stab wounds. Tests quickly show he’d had Ebola.<\/p>\n

Officials realize the suspects in the case, men in a local gang, may have picked up and spread Ebola across the slum. These men are reluctant to quarantine themselves and some \u2013 including a man nicknamed “Time Bomb” \u2013 cannot even be found.<\/p>\n

This scenario actually unfolded in the West African country of Liberia in 2015. And what followed was a truly unconventional effort by epidemiologists to stop a new Ebola outbreak.<\/p>\n

On today’s Radio Replay, we hear how those epidemiologists built trust to prevent an epidemic. Then, we talk with author Tim Harford<\/a> about the surprising benefits of messiness and chaos in our everyday lives.<\/p>\n

Hidden Brain is hosted by Shankar Vedantam and produced by Maggie Penman, Jennifer Schmidt, Rhaina Cohen, Parth Shah and Renee Klahr. Our supervising producer is Tara Boyle. You can also follow us on Twitter @hiddenbrain, and listen for Hidden Brain stories each week on your local public radio station.<\/em><\/p>\n