{"id":84958,"date":"2026-02-15T07:46:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84958"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:46:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:46:52","slug":"we-are-not-guinea-pigs-west-african-nation-halts-controversial-american-vaccine-study-after-public-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/we-are-not-guinea-pigs-west-african-nation-halts-controversial-american-vaccine-study-after-public-outcry\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We are not guinea pigs&#8217;: West African nation halts controversial American vaccine study after public outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WmPvb.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Guinea-Bissau vaccine \u00a9Kalpita.chakrabortty\/WikiMedia Commons\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A massive uproar has forced Guinea-Bissau to pull the plug on a US-funded vaccine trial that would have tested 14,000 newborn babies.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/we-are-not-guinea-pigs-west-african-nation-halts-controversial-american-vaccine-study-after-public-outcry\/ar-AA1WmBH0?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6990a5a1294b41d48309b9f2b8760655&amp;ei=95\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A massive uproar has forced Guinea-Bissau to pull the plug on a US-funded vaccine trial that would have tested 14,000 newborn babies.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/hep-Vaccine.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84976,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84958\/revisions\/84976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}