Thursday, September 7, 2017

Fw: Oxford Scientists Gave African Babies Trial TB Vaccine That Did Not Work on Monkeys



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Oxford Scientists Gave African Babies Trial TB Vaccine That Did Not Work on Monkeys

September 6, 2017 3:34 pm
Little boy sitting in a hospital waiting to get an injection. Symbol for African illness fighting. Black boy as a patient for a white woman nurse.
Oxford University is embroiled in an ethics row after scientists were accused of questionable conduct over a controversial trial of a new vaccine on African babies. Professor Peter Beverley, a former senior academic at the university, complained that scientists planned to test a new tuberculosis vaccine on more than a thousand infants without sharing data suggesting that monkeys given the immunisation had appeared to "die rapidly".
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