{"id":889436,"date":"2026-10-21T00:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889436\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:40:09","slug":"cops-raid-office-of-rfk-jr-allies-planning-unethical-vaccine-trial-on-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889436\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning \u201cunethical\u201d vaccine trial on babies"},"content":{"rendered":"

For now, the trial is not moving forward; Guinea-Bissau officials have not signed off on the trial. In a press conference last week, the country\u2019s health minister, Quinhin Nantote, confirmed that the government had not yet authorized it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny scientific research initiative involving human beings, particularly children, \u200cmust \u2060strictly comply with applicable national legislation, international ethical principles, competent evaluation and approval mechanisms,\u201d Nantote said, according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In response to media reports that the trial will move forward, Nantote told the Guardian,<\/a> \u201cThis is not even remotely true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now it appears that officials in Guinea-Bissau have opened an investigation into Aaby and Stabell Benn\u2019s work. In a Facebook post Monday<\/a>, translated from Portuguese, the judicial police announced they carried out a \u201csearch operation at the facilities of the Bandim Health Project in Bissau, which culminated in the seizure of a batch of hepatitis B vaccines intended for vaccination of children in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The police added that the operation \u201caimed at clarifying the circumstances related to the said batch of vaccines.\u201d The announcement noted that \u201cthe seizure constitutes an investigative procedure and does not allow, in itself, to conclude the existence of irregularities in the quality, safety, or effectiveness of the vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For now, the trial is not moving forward; Guinea-Bissau officials have not signed off on the trial. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-889436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}