Four decades after she left the Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork, Ireland, Mari Steed made a horrifying discovery. While there as an infant, she had been part of what she calls a “highly unethical” vaccine trial.
“Scientifically, I understand that there is no more perfect research group than a group of captive children. But that requires enormous ethical protocols, and that just wasn’t followed,” Steed, who was adopted from Bessborough by an American family, said. “Whether that was through sheer ignorance or ‘We don’t give a crap what happens to those kids’ — that part of it still makes me angry.
Six interim reports from the commission have been released. In those, the commission concluded that many of the children died of malnutrition and other preventable diseases; sometimes, their bodies wereThe final report, particularly any details on the vaccine experimentation, is “long overdue,” said Steed, who now lives in Ruther Glen, Virginia, and works at a day spa after careers in banking and academia.
The vaccine she received was produced by Burroughs Wellcome, a pharmaceutical company that later merged with GlaxoSmithKline. Steed confirmed through a freedom of information request with GlaxoSmithKline in 2011 that she had received the shot; she shared the confirmation she received with NBC News.Steed found out that she had been in the trial when she started searching for her medical records in the 1990s.
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