Late last week Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases canceled a government-funded U.S. trial of the Partnership for AIDS Vaccine Evaluation (PAVE) HIV vaccine. Dr. Fauci stated that the impending trial was to determine whether PAVE lowered the amount of HIV in infected blood, however he does feel that there is currently enough evidence that the vaccine would have its intended effect. Following a meeting to discuss what caused a similar trial conducted by Merck in 2007 to fail, Dr. Fauci has decided that a smaller trial should first be conducted before unleashing …read more

Reports coming out of Poland have potentially linked a trial of a new bird flu vaccine to the deaths of 21 homeless people:
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.

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 …read more