Vaccine testing for emerging infections: the case for individual randomisation

During the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, many opposed the use of individually randomised controlled trials to test candidate Ebola vaccines. For a raging fatal disease, they explained, it is unethical to relegate some study participants to control arms. In Zika and fu...

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Authors: Eyal, Nir (Author) ; Lipsitch, Marc (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2017
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 43, Issue: 9, Pages: 625-631
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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