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We wouldn't do a challenge trial for Ebola, because the disease is extremely severe, and there are currently no licensed treatments or vaccines. And so, there was a lot of debate about that back in 2017 and 2018 , when they were considering these trials in the first place. So that's a drawback. 5 AP: Who decides your risk level?

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Credit: Bruce Wetzel and Harry Schaefer, NCI, NIH | License Last edit: 13 September 2023 Progress in biology is arguably moving faster today than at any point in the course of human history. Artificial Life (2018). Nature Biotechnology (2018). Science (2018). & Shamir R. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2008).

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