Guinea-Bissau | Govt. cancels U.S.- funded Hep-B vaccine clinical trial in newborns - video Dailymotion

Guinea-Bissau has canceled a US funded study that sought to evaluate potential side effects of the Hepatitis B vaccine. teleSUR

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00:00The episode has canceled a U.S. funded study that sought to evaluate potential

00:06side effects of the hepatitis B vaccine. The clinical trial aimed to administer

00:12the vaccine to 14,000 newborns. The research which sought to evaluate the

00:19side effects of the vaccine, including a possible link to autism, was suspended

00:25due to ethical concerns. Researchers urged the World Health Organization to promote

00:32only approved treatments and not use children in experiments by large

00:37multinational corporations.