12 Babies die during vaccine trials in Argentina

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12 Babies die during vaccine trials in Argentina

Thursday, July 10, 2008; Posted: 05:23 PM

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At least 12 babies who were part of a clinical study to test the

effectiveness of a vaccine

against pneumonia have died over the past year in Argentina, the

local press reported

Thursday.

The study was sponsored by global drug giant GlaxoKline and uses

children from

poor families, who are " pressured and forced into signing consent

forms, " the Argentine

Federation of Health Professionals, or Fesprosa, said.

" This occurs without any type of state control " and " does not comply

with minimum ethical

requirements, " Fesprosa said.

The vaccine trial is still ongoing despite the denunciations, and

those in charge of the

study were cited by the Critica newspaper as saying that the

procedures are being carried

out in a lawful manner.

Colombian and Panama were also chosen by GSK as staging grounds for

trials of the

vaccine against the pneumococcal bacteria.