Are African children in vaccine experiment without consent?


An editor with the prestigious British Medical Journal (BJM) is sounding alarm bells about alleged vaccine experimentation on African children without consent.

In an opinion piece in the journal, BJM associate editor Peter Doshi says the World Health Organization (WHO) is injecting African children with an experimental malaria vaccine without informing parents of the potential risks.

Over 720,000 children in Malawi, Ghana, and Kenya will reportedly receive the world’s first licensed malaria vaccine, Mosquirix over the next two years. The program is already underway.

Mosquirix, the world’s first licensed malaria vaccine, was positively reviewed by the European Medicines Agency, but its use is being limited to pilot implementation, in part to evaluate outstanding safety concerns that emerged from previous clinical trials. These were a rate of meningitis in those receiving Mosquirix 10 times that of those who did not, increased cerebral malaria cases, and a doubling in the risk of death (from any cause) in girls.

Peter Doshi, associate editor, British Medical Journal

Mosquirix is being introduced in the African countries as part of a pilot introduction of the licensed vaccine, according to WHO. The group argues that since the children will be given the drug as part of the country’s routine vaccination schedule, consent is implied.

WHO will reportedly evaluate data collected during the two-year rollout of the vaccine in Africa and decide whether to roll out Mosquirix on a larger scale based on that data.

Critics say that WHO is describing the project as a pilot implementation rather than an experimental study, to avoid ethical red tape.

Some reported safety concerns that emerged after the clinical trials of Mosquirix are:

  • Ten times higher rates of meningitis in participants who received the vaccine, compared to those who did not
  • Higher rates of cerebral malaria
  • A two-fold mortality risk for girls (more than twice the number of females died in the vaccine group, compared to the unvaccinated girls)

Malaria reportedly kills about 435,000 people around the globe each year.

Read the British Medical Journal opinion story here.

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6 thoughts on “Are African children in vaccine experiment without consent?”

  1. This reminds me of (among many similar things) to the Cutter incident. For those unfamiliar with it, you can easily google to verify that children (specifically, orphans because there were no parents to object) were used as Guinea pigs in a polio vaccine experiment in which, in the end, at least 220 000 people were infected with live polio virus by the vaccine (including 100 000 contacts of immunised children), 70 000 developed muscle weakness, 164 were severely paralysed, and 10 died.

  2. This is not the first time Africans have been used in medical experiments. In the late 50s Hillary Kaproski vaccinated more than 900,000 Africans in what was then the Belgium Congo with an oral polio vaccine he had amplified (he put US made vaccine in a new substrate he made locally from monkeys and chimpanzees). Several years later both Ebola and AIDS broke out in the area from a process scientists refer to as recombination. HIV2 from sooty mangabee SIV and HIV1 from chimpanzee SIV.
    These diseases ravaged Africa and of course have since gone worldwide, AIDS has killed an estimated 50 million people. Maurice Hilliman who created 36 vaccines admitted this in the late 90s when he said “we didn’t know it at the time but those monkeys had the AIDS virus in them.”
    See Edward Hooper’s book The River. He also has a website, search origin of AIDS Hooper.

  3. AT 70 I REMEMBER BACK THEN LATE 50’S .AND AS A KID I KELP MY EARS OPEN TO WHAT WAS BEING SAID. (LIKE WHAT WAS IN THE NEWS AND WHAT WAS REMOVED. (IN THE LATE 50’S A GROP WENT TO AFRICA. WITH A EXPECIMENT VACCINE. (THAT IS A GIVEING) AT THAT POINT 2 STORYS CAME OUT. (1) THEY GAVE 1 MILLION PEOPLE THAT VACCINE. (TELLING THEM IT WAS FOR POLIO) NOW 2 THE ONE THAT FITS HISTORY BEST. (2) THEY WENT TO AFRICA AND GAVE 1 MILLION WOMEN THE VACCINE BUT IT WAS FOR (BIRTH CONTROL). THEY STUDY THE POLIO VACCINE FOR YEARS AND SAID THERE WAS NO WAY IT COULD HAVE CAUSED AIDS. (AND THERE RIGHT) BUT ON THE OTHER HAND THE BIRTH CONTROL VACCINE WOULD HAVE.AND NOW 70 YR LATER THERE STILL TRYING TO COVER IT UP. THIS WAS NOT DONE AS A GOOD DEED. THEY WERE TRYING TO BY PASS THE U.S. RULES. AND DOING SO THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE MILLIONSAIRS OVER NIGHT. BUT IN REEEL THEY HAVE KILLED A FEW MILLION FOR THERE GREED . SO I ASK. WHITCH FITS HISTORY. WITH THE GREED IN THE MIDDLE

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