Lawsuit Filed as Decades-Old Unethical RSV Vaccine Trial Comes to Light
A lawsuit has been filed regarding a decades-old RSV vaccine trial involving two black infants who allegedly participated without their families' consent. The infants died shortly after receiving the experimental vaccine, and the lawsuit claims wrongful death and civil battery against the federal government. This case highlights ongoing concerns about unethical medical experimentation on marginalized communities in the U.S.
- ▪The lawsuit involves two black infants who received an experimental RSV vaccine in the mid-1960s without informed consent from their families.
- ▪Both infants died from RSV infections and pneumonia shortly after participating in the trial, which was conducted at a Washington, D.C. children's clinic.
- ▪The lawsuit alleges that tissue samples from the infants' autopsies were used to develop the RSV vaccine approved by the FDA in 2023.
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