New in the Hastings Center Report

(The Hastings Center) The Ethics of Infection Challenges in PrimatesAnne Barnhill, Steven Joffe, and Franklin G. MillerDuring the recent Ebola outbreak, scientific developments involving infection challenge experiments on nonhuman primates (NHPs) sparked hope that successful treatments and vaccines may soon become available. Yet these studies intentionally expose sophisticated animals to severe suffering and a high risk of death. Should research on NHPs other than great apes be subject to tighte...