historic info-Measles Vaccine, 1960

[serenbat]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/he...r=1&ref=health

there is also an interesting "editorial" on colds in today paper (x-posted in Health)--gives very little backup on sources

[NYMOM07]

this article made me actually think (the orginal article they site) that people did not like getting measles, and that they really wanted/needed a vaccine. it was not todays media hypeing up the shot, it was at a time before they had it.

[caned & able]

Did you read that article?

Do you know what Willowbrook School on Staten Island was about? RFK went there in 1967 and urged that it be closed. The school did not close for another 20 years. Those poor children were used to test the Hepatitis B vaccine also.

Marge Grant suggests that many of those poor children were diagnosed as brain damaged AFTER a vaccine reaction, a reaction similar to the one that her son suffered in 1961, in her book A Stolen Life.

[NYMOM07]

Originally Posted by caned & able

Did you read that article?

Do you know what Willowbrook School on Staten Island was about? RFK went there in 1967 and urged that it be closed. The school did not close for another 20 years. Those poor children were used to test the Hepatitis B vaccine also.

Marge Grant suggests that many of those poor children were diagnosed as brain damaged AFTER a vaccine reaction, a reaction similar to the one that her son suffered in 1961, in her book A Stolen Life.

i read the measles article, it didnt mention what you are talking about.....

[caned & able]

I am saying that the Willowbrook School where the measles vaccine was tested had was notorious for it poor treatment of mentally challenged children. They were used for human experiments since they were wards of the state. Using children in Nigeria, the third world, particularly in 1960, is another human rights violation. That is a violation of the Nuremburg Codes.

That was my point.