[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Homeless people die after bird flux vax experiment in Poland

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Date: 	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:00:19 -0500
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*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 5 July 2008 AD #2

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bid-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html
Telegraph (UK) 7-2-08

*Homeless people die after bird flu vaccine trial in Poland
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By Matthew Day in Warsaw

Three Polish doctors and six nurses are facing criminal prosecution after a
number of homeless people died following medical trials for a vaccine to the
H5N1 bird-flu virus.

21 people died after being given the vaccine The medical staff, from the
northern town of Grudziadz, are being investigated over medical trials on as
many as 350 homeless and poor people last year, which prosecutors say
involved an untried vaccine to the highly-contagious virus.

Authorities claim that the alleged victims received £1-2 to be tested with
what they thought was a conventional flu vaccine but, according to
investigators, was actually an anti bird-flu drug.

The director of a Grudziadz homeless centre, Mieczyslaw Waclawski, told a
Polish newspaper that last year, 21 people from his centre died, a figure
well above the average of about eight.

Although authorities have yet to prove a direct link between the deaths and
the activities of the medical staff, Poland's health minister, Ewa Kopacz,
has said that the doctors and nurses involved should not return to their
profession.

"It is in the interests of all doctors that those who are responsible for
this are punished," the minister added.

Investigators are also probing the possibility that the medical staff may
have also have deceived the pharmaceutical companies that commissioned the
trials.

The suspects said that the all those involved knew that the trial involved
an anti-H5N1 drug and willingly participated.

The news of the investigation will come as another blow to the reputation of
Poland's beleaguered and poverty-stricken national health service. In 2002,
a number of ambulance medics were found guilty of killing their patients for
commissions from funeral companies.

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