Lawsuit Filed as Decades-Old Unethical RSV Vaccine Trial Comes to Light
A lawsuit has been filed regarding a decades-old RSV vaccine trial involving two black infants who allegedly participated without their families' consent. The infants died shortly after receiving the experimental vaccine, and the lawsuit claims wrongful death and civil battery against the federal government. This case highlights ongoing concerns about unethical medical experimentation on marginalized communities in the U.S.
- ▪The lawsuit involves two black infants who received an experimental RSV vaccine in the mid-1960s without informed consent from their families.
- ▪Both infants died from RSV infections and pneumonia shortly after participating in the trial, which was conducted at a Washington, D.C. children's clinic.
- ▪The lawsuit alleges that tissue samples from the infants' autopsies were used to develop the RSV vaccine approved by the FDA in 2023.
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Lawsuit Filed as Decades-Old Unethical RSV Vaccine Trial Comes to Light Greg Byrnes | 9:20 AM on May 29, 2026 AP Photo/Ted Jackson A doctor friend of mine attended a medical conference many years ago. A German doctor gave a medical presentation on the eye, complete with pictures. There was much interesting information given until the question-and-answer period, when another expert in the field stood up and stated that there was no way to have collected this information unless the patient, rather than being dead, was still alive. The doctor made a hasty exit. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); Mary Shelley's fictional character Dr.
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