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The killing of 14 babies in illegal vaccine trials
 GSK fined measly $90,000 by Argentine court for killing 14 babies in illegal vaccine trials; drug giant actually appealing!!!!(NaturalNews)
An Argentine court has fined drug monolith GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) a
piddling $90,000 for conducting illegal vaccine trials on third-world
babies between 2007 and 2008 that resulted in 14 of those babies being
killed. GSK's shocking and utterly horrific crimes against humanity are
topped only by its heartless appeal of the fine, which is the
financial equivalent of a small slap on the wrist, and is hardly a
proper punishment for crimes of this magnitude to begin with. The Buenos Aires Herald
(BAH) reports that a paper issued by the National Administration of
Medicine, Food and Technology found GSK to be in violation of the law
when it rounded up babies from around Argentina to participate in
vaccine experiments that are illegal in both the US and Europe. GSK
recruited doctors to lure in unsuspecting victims, who convinced
parents of young children to sign consent forms that would bind them
into complying with the entire experiment.
"These doctors took advantage of many illiterate parents whom (sic)
take their children for treatment by pressuring and forcing them into
signing these 28-page consent forms and getting them involved in the
trials," said Ana Marchese, a pediatrician who worked at the Eva Peron
Children's Public Hospital in Santiago del Estero during the trial
period. Various doctors, including Hector Abate and Miguel Tregnaghi,
both of which were also fined as part of the ruling, carried out the
dirty work of GSK by deceiving trial patients.
"Laboratories can't experiment in Europe or the United States, so they
come to do it in third-world countries," added Marchese. "These kind of
practices are not legal and occurred without any type of state
control, plus they don't comply with minimum ethical requirements." Many
of the babies involved with the trial, which was testing a
pneumococcal bacteria vaccine, ended up experiencing severe adverse
reactions, while others actually died. Doctors involved in the
experiment reportedly did not answer requests from parents about the
conditions of their children after receiving the vaccine.
Those parents that tried to withdraw their children from the trial
while it was still taking place were threatened, according to Julieta
Ovejero, a great aunt of one of the babies who died. Ovejero told BAH
that all participants were told they would never receive another
vaccine for their children again if they tried to leave the trial
early.
Several years after this whole fiasco took place, a court in Argentina
ruled against GSK with a small $90,000 fine, which is nothing for the
multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company. However, GSK denies any
wrongdoing, or any connection between its vaccines and the child deaths,
and is actually now appealing the fine in court.
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