OBAMA'S "ETHICS PANEL" OK'S ANTHRAX "GUINEA PIG" EXPERIMENTS ON CHILDREN
“A presidential ethics panel…? ”It doesn’t get anymore oxymoronic than that.
(Reuters) - A presidential ethics panel has opened the door to testing an anthrax vaccine on children as young as infants, bringing an angry response from critics who say the children would be guinea pigs in a study that would never help them and might harm them. The idea of testing an anthrax vaccine on babies arose from a 2011 war game, called Dark Zephyr.
The presidential bioethics panel conceded that "there is no prospect of direct benefit to children" who participate in an anthrax-vaccine study, Gutmann said. According to the biodefense board, children in such a study would face more than minimal risk because the side effects of the vaccine in children are unknown.
To critics, the combination of no benefit and some risk to children means a pediatric anthrax-vaccine study should be prohibited. "We have to wonder if, after all the data collected by the U.S. Army on the side-effects experienced by soldiers, we would want to subject children to skin ulcers symptoms of the disease," said Jeanne Guillemin, a senior fellow in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Security Studies Program and author of a 2011 book about anthrax attacks, titled "American Anthrax."
In the largest study of the anthrax vaccine, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2008 that in 1,563 adults who received the vaccine, there were 229 "serious adverse events" such as cardiovascular disease, intracranial aneurysm and seizure, though only nine were "officially"blamed on the vaccine.
Much more common were milder reactions such as soreness near the injection site, itching, fever and malaise. The one anthrax vaccine approved in the United States, called BioThrax, is made by Emergent BioSolutions Inc of Rockville, Maryland. The company reported $215.9 million in sales of BioThrax, its only licensed product, in 2012. READ ENTIRE ARTICLE
Under a 2005 law, children in an anthrax-vaccine study would be prohibited from seeking damages through the legal system.
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“A presidential ethics panel…? ”It doesn’t get anymore oxymoronic than that.
(Reuters) - A presidential ethics panel has opened the door to testing an anthrax vaccine on children as young as infants, bringing an angry response from critics who say the children would be guinea pigs in a study that would never help them and might harm them. The idea of testing an anthrax vaccine on babies arose from a 2011 war game, called Dark Zephyr.The presidential bioethics panel conceded that "there is no prospect of direct benefit to children" who participate in an anthrax-vaccine study, Gutmann said. According to the biodefense board, children in such a study would face more than minimal risk because the side effects of the vaccine in children are unknown.
To critics, the combination of no benefit and some risk to children means a pediatric anthrax-vaccine study should be prohibited. "We have to wonder if, after all the data collected by the U.S. Army on the side-effects experienced by soldiers, we would want to subject children to skin ulcers symptoms of the disease," said Jeanne Guillemin, a senior fellow in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Security Studies Program and author of a 2011 book about anthrax attacks, titled "American Anthrax."
In the largest study of the anthrax vaccine, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2008 that in 1,563 adults who received the vaccine, there were 229 "serious adverse events" such as cardiovascular disease, intracranial aneurysm and seizure, though only nine were "officially"blamed on the vaccine.
Much more common were milder reactions such as soreness near the injection site, itching, fever and malaise. The one anthrax vaccine approved in the United States, called BioThrax, is made by Emergent BioSolutions Inc of Rockville, Maryland. The company reported $215.9 million in sales of BioThrax, its only licensed product, in 2012. READ ENTIRE ARTICLE
Under a 2005 law, children in an anthrax-vaccine study would be prohibited from seeking damages through the legal system.
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