The ethical justification for this is that this is a disease already present in the dog population, so this research would benefit more dogs than those sacrificed in the trial.

Same thing happens in Ebola research. Monkeys get Ebola same as humans, so vets justify giving Ebola to monkeys in the rationale than any vaccine developed would benefit the monkey population as a whole.

Edit: Believe me, it’s an ethical dilemma that keeps researchers up at night pondering. It’s one of the reasons I went into botany.

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Posted by Darth_Vader

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Posted on 10/24/21 at 4:57 pm to UndercoverBryologist

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The ethical justification for this is that this is a disease already present in the dog population, so this research would benefit more dogs than those sacrificed in the trial.

Same thing happens in Ebola research. Monkeys get Ebola same as humans, so vets justify giving Ebola to monkeys in the rationale than any vaccine developed would benefit the monkey population as a whole.

Edit: Believe me, it’s an ethical dilemma that keeps researchers up at night pondering. It’s one of the reasons I went into botany.

So is there no other way to infect the dogs besides putting their head in box and letting flies eat them alive?

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Posted by TigerstuckinMS

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Posted on 10/24/21 at 5:14 pm to UndercoverBryologist

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Same thing happens in Ebola research. Monkeys get Ebola same as humans, so vets justify giving Ebola to monkeys in the rationale than any vaccine developed would benefit the monkey population as a whole.

Speaking of Ebola in monkeys. Have you ever watched "Outbreak" or read "The Hot Zone"? Those are both based on a real incident where Ebola was on the loose in Reston, Virginia. Yes, THAT Ebola. A government research lab ordered some monkeys to do other research on and they started dying until they were dead. The researchers couldn't figure out why they were dying until they were dead until they looked at their blood and tissue samples under an electron microscope and HOLY frick, THAT'S EBOLA!

Luckily, their "super safe nothing can get out" lab was until it wasn't. They figured this out when they tested everyone at the lab and several caretakers popped up seropositive for Ebola. Apparently, this strain will murder the frick out of monkeys and is so infectious that it jumped from monkey to monkey and across lab barriers as if they weren't even there. It infects humans, too, but causes no symptoms in humans. It, however, is 100% Ebola.

Look up Ebola Reston sometime. Also, look up how close Reston is to D.C.

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Posted by tigerinthebueche

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Posted on 10/24/21 at 7:36 pm to UndercoverBryologist