Word: abotulinum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...October 1990 meeting of the Army Ethics committee concerned itself with abotulinum toxoid vaccine, and they weren't too pleased with what laboratory research into the drug had turned up. Army physicians weren't confident it would work, and the committee decided it should not be used on troops without "an abbreviated oral informed consent statement." In other words, they should be told. But the Department of Defense nixed that, and went ahead with thousands of warning-free botulism jabs in the run-up to the Gulf...
| 1 |