Question
To help prevent people from getting the Ebola virus, countries around the world paid to help doctors develop a new vaccine. Now that the vaccine has been made, doctors will need to experiment on a large number of people to find out if it works safely.
What is the greatest limitation that scientists are dealing with as they try to figure out how to experiment with the Ebola vaccine?
time
complexity
money
ethics
What is the greatest limitation that scientists are dealing with as they try to figure out how to experiment with the Ebola vaccine?
time
complexity
money
ethics
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The greatest limitation that scientists are dealing with as they try to figure out how to experiment with the Ebola vaccine is **ethics**.
Conducting experiments on humans, especially with a virus as severe as Ebola, raises significant ethical concerns regarding informed consent, potential risks to participants, and the need to ensure that any testing is conducted with the utmost respect for the safety and rights of individuals. While time, complexity, and money are also considerations, ethical implications are paramount in clinical trials involving vaccines for serious diseases.
Conducting experiments on humans, especially with a virus as severe as Ebola, raises significant ethical concerns regarding informed consent, potential risks to participants, and the need to ensure that any testing is conducted with the utmost respect for the safety and rights of individuals. While time, complexity, and money are also considerations, ethical implications are paramount in clinical trials involving vaccines for serious diseases.