| Comment Record |
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Commentor |
Dr. Yvonne Villanueva-Russell |
Date/Time |
2002-11-01 15:57:15 |
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Organization |
Texas A&M University-Commerce |
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Category |
Academic |
| Comments for FDA General |
| Questions |
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1. General Comments
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I strongly oppose this study as the risks to young children far away any supposed benefits. If smallpox were a deadly disease with no known cure, and one that absolutely no one could survive after having contracted it, and if the threat of smallpox were imminent (and more serious than a veiled attempt to manipulate the public's view of terrorism and create support for a politically motivated agenda, then I might be more persuaded to condone a study of this nature. Unfortunately, this is another in a horrid history of medicine where the poor, the powerless, and the not-fully educated (via informed consent) are victimized, experimented upon and used a guinea pigs in the name of science.
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