Merck tells AIDS vaccine volunteers who got jab

Source: reuters



Merck tells AIDS vaccine volunteers who got jab

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of people who volunteered to test an experimental AIDS vaccine that may have actually raised the risk of infection will be told if they got the actual shot, researchers said on Tuesday.


Merck & Co. Inc. and academic researchers said they would "unblind" the study, meaning everyone would find out who got the active shot and who got a dummy injection.

Two international trials of the experimental vaccine were stopped in September after it became clear the vaccine did not prevent infection with the AIDS virus.

The trials were conducted in the United States, Peru, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Australia and South Africa.


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that brought you Vioxx and Gardasil.

held out great promise in the labs.

the results in the trials were entirely unexpected.

what this is -- is very sad news for a badly badly needed vaccine.

I do. I've seen what it does to people. I would've taken the shot.

My beef is not with the idea but the careless methodology.

...of this test. As far as I can tell, they made it about as safe as any such test can be made.

Until I met a homeless man who did it for the money. And he was not stupid, he knew drug testing was high risk but he thought it was better than getting a job, easier too.

These Big Pharma fascists must be stopped! These guys are extremely dangerous!