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RFK Jr’s ‘deities of vaccine research’ raided by police in Guinea-Bissau
Police seize doses of hepatitis B vaccine from people at center of dispute over research on African newborns
Controversial vaccine researchers who have been praised by Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, had their offices in Guinea-Bissau raided by judicial police, who seized doses of hepatitis B vaccines, officials said on Facebook.
The researchers have been at the heart of an ongoing dispute over research on African newborns, supported by $1.6m from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and matched by the Pershing Square Foundation and the Bluebell Foundation for a total of $3.2m.
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Despite widespread criticism, a halted clinical trial of the hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau moved forward last month for the most quotidian of reasons: $1.6 million in grant money needed by the Danish researchers conducting the study was expiring in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s budget, Rolling Stone has learned.
The study seeks to examine whether the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, used safely for decades, has potential negative health effects such as skin ailments or neurodevelopmental disorders. To do so, it plans to give the birth dose to only half of the 14,000 newborns enrolled, raising the risk that in a country where hepatitis B is endemic, the other 7,000 not provided the birth dose could face infection and lifelong consequences, including cirrhosis and liver cancer.
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Africa pushes back against US health and aid agenda
Health professionals were appalled last week when a Danish ethics committee gave the go-ahead to a US-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial on newborns in the impoverished African country of Guinea-Bissau.
The vaccine is deemed safe by most scientists but some discredited Danish researchers want to investigate what they call its “nonspecific” outcomes. In the trial, some 7,000 babies would receive the vaccine but it would be withheld from another 7,000 newborns for their first six weeks of life.
Such a trial is deemed unethical by most health experts because it could put this second group of babies at high risk of hepatitis B – which can lead to liver cancer and cirrhosis – in a country with some of the highest rates of the disease.
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