Families Sue U.S. over Black Babies Who Died in 1960s Vaccine Test
The lawsuit says two infants were given three doses without consent, and a hospital director warned the trial could worsen illness before they died.
- On Thursday, families of Ross Otto Hambrick and Victor Marcellus King filed a lawsuit against The United States government, alleging their babies died after being secretly enrolled in NIH-sponsored RSV vaccine trials during the 1960s.
- According to the complaint, The National Institutes targeted vulnerable Black infants from low-income families to test the dangerous 'Lot 100' experimental vaccine between 1965 and 1966 without parental consent.
- Both boys died in January 1967, and attorneys claim lung tissue harvested during autopsies informed RSV vaccines approved by the FDA in 2023, which are "now generating billions in revenue."
- Civil rights attorney Ben Crump represents the families alongside William Murphy, Carol Lexing Powell, Malcolm Ruff, and Nabeha Shaer; families received no compensation or notification for decades.
- The case follows a 2023 Undark investigation that traced the boys' names through an NIH researcher's lab notebook, echoing historical medical abuses like the Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee.
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In Lawsuit Filed in D.C., Ben Crump Accuses U.S. of Using Black Babies in Deadly Vaccine Experiment
The families of two Black infants who died in 1967 have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the US government of secretly using their children in dangerous RSV vaccine experiments without their parents' knowledge or consent. The post In Lawsuit Filed in D.C., Ben Crump Accuses U.S. of Using Black Babies in Deadly Vaccine Experiment appeared first on The Washington Informer.
Families Sue US Over Secret RSV Trials on Black Infants
Two families say their babies were used as test subjects in a government-backed vaccine trial they never agreed to, and that the babies died soon after. A new lawsuit accuses the US government of wrongful death, lack of informed consent, and civil battery over a mid-1960s experiment in Washington, DC,...
"Medical research in the United States has a long and disturbing racial history," according to lawyers representing the families of babies who died in 1967.
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