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Doctors and researchers are also struggling with the ethics of testing potential AIDS vaccines now under development in the U.S. and France. The problem: vaccines for any disease must eventually be tested on healthy humans. What if volunteers accept the vaccine, then risk exposure and come down with the disease...
Last year, nonetheless, a French team under Dr. Daniel Zagury apparently tried, without prior tests on animals, a vaccine on African prostitutes. Many of his colleagues were fearful that he might be experimenting with Third World subjects who had little understanding of the risks involved. Zagury retorted that his critics...
As physicians ponder the issues raised by AIDS drug and vaccine testing, Dr. Jean Bernard, 79, chairman on medical ethics of France's Consultative Committee for Life Sciences and Health, urges them to take the long view. He reminds colleagues of the tremendous pressures 30 years ago to cut corners...
New developments in AIDS drugs and vaccine research programs confront doctors with fateful decisions in treating patients.
McPherson cited the development of a malaria vaccine and a new strain of sorghum as examples of the progress international development programs have made.