Reports say Ghana has stopped the trial for an Ebola vaccine after government received several complaints that humans were being used as “guinea pigs.”
A spokesman for the Ghana Minister of Health said on Wednesday that many citizens were not happy with the development. Ghana is presently free of the deadly disease, which has killed more than 11,000 persons in West Africa, including Nigeria.
Tony Goodman, media aide to the Minister of Health, Alex Segbefia, told Citi FM that, “The minister has got a lot of calls from numerous Ghanaians saying that they are not interested in any trial,” adding that “so he said the trial should be suspended until he returns to look at the issues.”
Goodman said many people have alleged that innocent Voltarians are being used as guinea pigs to test the vaccine.
Phase 1 safety tests for one vaccine, developed by US pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson and Denmark’s Bavarian Nordic in the southeastern Volta region gave volunteers a mobile phone and nearly $5 each.
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