Parents furious to learn children were part of hand, foot and mouth vaccine trial

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http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/National/2013/01/25/Parents%2Bfurious%2Bat%2Btheir%2Bchildren%2Bused%2Bas%2Bguinea%2Bpigs/

"ANGRY parents have accused a township health service center in Taixing, Jiangsu Province, of using their children as guinea pigs after it was found to have injected more than 100 of them with vaccines still under clinical trial.

Both the health center in Fenjie Town and the Taixing City Disease Control Center admitted that the vaccine was not yet on the market but insisted that the trial had been approved by parents, the Modern Express reported yesterday.

However, parents said they had no idea it was a trial when their children took part in January last year...."