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Monday, January 25, 2010

Doctors Tested Bird Flu Vaccine on Homeless People


Three doctors and six nurses from the municipality of Grudziadz, Poland, are being investigated on charges that they recruited 350 homeless people into a clinical effort of a vaccine for the H5N1 contagion virus without informing them what the study was rattling about.

Twenty-one people died during the instruction of the study, significantly higher than the cipher influenza modification rate, which would have led to eight deaths.

\"It is in the interests of all doctors that those who are responsible for this are punished,\" said Poland's upbeat minister, Ewa Kopacz. She said that patch no direct unification has been proven between the empiric vaccine and the deaths, she does not conceive that any of the upbeat tending workers involved should be allowed to practice medicine further.

Prosecutors verify that the participants - from a homeless diminution - were recruited into the study by being offered £1-£2 ($1.65-$3.00) to undergo a test of a new vaccine for standard, seasonal influenza. Instead, however, the study was meant to test a vaccine of the far more lethal H5N1 virus, which has a modification evaluate of more than 50 percent.

Novartis Vaccines, the caregiver consort involved in the trial, claims that it was deceived most the consent procedures that the researchers intended to use.

The gossip is only the latest to impact Poland's upbeat tending sector. In 2002, several ambulance medics were guilty of murdering patients in order to acquire kickbacks from funeral homes.

Poland is a global edifice for upbeat tending research, cod to a well-trained medical staff, large population and good infrastructure. It also tends to be easy to find patients selection to undergo empiric therapies, as the public upbeat tending system tends to pay only for the cheapest, most well-proven generic treatments.

Monika Stefanczyk, a senior caregiver market analyst at the consulting firm PMR, predicted that unless some of these factors change, Poland's medical research industry will remain mostly unaffected by the scandal.

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