A Free Haiti Movement re-post from HLLN archives, 2004 US used Haitian and Mexican babies in Vaccine Experiment Vaccinate Haiti? Whos testing US/Paul Farmers short term cholera vaccines? US government agencies and research groups conducted experiments with high dosages of the Edmonston-Zagreb (EZ) measles vaccine from 1987 to 1991 on thousands of babies in Haiti, Mexico, Senegal, Guinea Bissau and African-American and Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles, according to information from the Washington Office on Haiti (WOH) and the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC). Babies as young as six-months old were given from 10 to 500 times the normal dosage... ...In Haiti the vaccine was given to 2,097 babies from 1987 to 1988 in Port-au-Princes Cite Soleil section. About half the babies were already enrolled in an HIV research program, and the followup study did not count some 100 deaths among these children, on the assumption that they died of HIV-related causes. The study was administered by Baltimores Johns Hopkins University and the USAID-funded Centers for Development and Health (CDS), a network of clinics in Cite Soleil.... (bit.ly/1g3SM5d ) **** *1. US USED HAITIAN AND MEXICAN BABIES IN VACCINE EXPERIMENT US government agencies and research groups conducted experiments with high dosages of the Edmonston-Zagreb (EZ) measles vaccine from 1987 to 1991 on thousands of babies in Haiti, Mexico, Senegal, Guinea Bissau and African-American and Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles, according to information from the Washington Office on Haiti (WOH) and the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC). Babies as young as six-months old were given from 10 to 500 times the normal dosage. Health authorities ignored warnings in 1990 from the French director of the Senegal project, who reported abnormal mortality rates among the babies, especially the girls. The program was abruptly halted more than a year later, after the director published his findings in the British medical journal Lancet (10/12/91) and independent studies confirmed the Senegal report. At that time the World Health Organization (WHO) was planning to administer 250 million high- level EZ doses in Third World countries; an unnamed demographer estimates that the WHO program would have led to 18 million excess infant deaths. [WOH-NVIC press release and fact sheet 7/16/96] On June 16 officials of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) admitted that the agency had sponsored a 1989-1991 EZ experiment conducted by Kaiser Permanente of California on nearly 1,500 babies in Los Angles. Parents were not told the EZ vaccine was experimental. A mistake was made, current CDC director David Satcher said. [T]hings sometimes fall through the cracks. The CDC says none of the infants were harmed. [Philadelphia Inquirer 6/17/96 from Los Angles Times] The Mexico study was conducted in 1987 on 1,360 babies in three areas, including Mexico Citys Iztapalapa delegacion (administration unit). The experiment was jointly sponsored by the CDC and the Mexican Health Secretariat, with funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID). [New England Journal of Medicine 3/1/90] Mexico reported no excess deaths, but the study included no children with histories of malnutrition or immune system problems. [Undated fact sheet by medical writer Worth Cooley-Prost] In Haiti the vaccine was given to 2,097 babies from 1987 to 1988 in Port-au-Princes Cite Soleil section. About half the babies were already enrolled in an HIV research program, and the followup study did not count some 100 deaths among these children, on the assumption that they died of HIV-related causes. The study was administered by Baltimores Johns Hopkins University and the USAID-funded Centers for Development and Health (CDS), a network of clinics in Cite Soleil. The CDS suspended operations earlier this year due to political and financial problems. [WOH and NVIC fact sheet 7/16/96] Haitian activists have repeatedly accused the CDS and its director, Dr. Reginald Boulos, of employing members of rightwing death squads. On Oct. 15, 1995, protesters threw rocks at a motorcade taking US vice president Al Gores wife Tipper Gore to visit the CDS offices [see Update 299]. Reginald Boulos brother Rodolphe directs Haitis Pharval pharmaceutical firm, which was founded by Dr. Carlo Boulos, health minister under dictator Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier. Current health minister Dr. Rodolphe Mallebranche says that two non-prescription anti-fever syrups made by Pharval, Valodon and Afebrile, were contaminated recently with diethylene glycol, which causes renal failure. Some 60 children have been poisoned by the syrups in the last few months; most have died. Pharval insists that the contaminated syrups were pirated versions made in clandestine laboratories. [Haiti Info Vol. 4, #17, 6/29/96] In the middle of this month the Health Ministry ordered a temporary suspension of Pharvals operations. [Diario Las Americas (Miami) 7/18/96]
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