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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Cuba to conduct vaccine trials in Malaysia

This is the news that i read this morning. Cuba is going to conduct clinical trials here.

I don't know how to feel. Do they know what's the meaning of this? I've always thought that developed countries go to undeveloped countries to do clinical trials, because they never know what's the outcome of the trials, and the people that accept the treatment can't do anything about it. I feel like this is making our country looks like an undeveloped country. “Cuba feels that our country is unique for conducting clinical trials because we abide by global standards and because of the composition of our society,” This is what out PM said. I feel that we're becomong the quinea pigs of their trials. White mice. We do not know what the vaccines contained, they won't disclose it. This is the procedure. What if they test harmful things on us? Sure they'll pay the test subjects some money, and if they do not know that it's a test, they thought it's good deal! I'm scared the vaccines is something that will last in out country. How could this be hapenning to our country? If the vaccines is so good, why didn't they do it on their own people? Why didn't they conduct it on their neighbouring country? Why? DO THEY EVER THINK THIS BEFORE SIGNING THE AGREEMENT?

1 Comments:

At 12:30 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually, Cuba may be a poor country, but their national health system is fairly well-regarded internationally. This could be an information exchange or scientific co-operation of sorts. I'm not a scientist, but perhaps having tested the vaccine on the Cubans, they would like to test it on Asians as people of different ethnicities react differently to drugs.

 

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