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How much is a baby's life in Argentina? For GlaxoSmithKline, apparently the price is $8,000. And when you live in one of the poorest province in the country, that is a lot of money.

Because people in the US and in Europe wouldn't allow their babies to be test subjects in yet another new vaccine, GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) has decided to go to the poorest regions of the earth to do its clinical trials. Since 2007, 15,000 children under the age of one from the Argentine provinces of Mendoza, San Juan and Santiago del Estero have been included in the research protocol. Twelve babies have died as a result of the clinical trial directly related to vaccine, a vaccine said to prevent pneumococcal bacteria.

But it gets worse.

Informed consent "is a legal condition whereby a person can be said to have given consent based upon an appreciation and understanding of facts and implications of an action."

Argentine Federation of Health Professionals, known as Fesprosa, said that in most cases these are underprivileged individuals, many of them unable to read and write, who are pressured into including their children in the trials.

A great aunt of one of the babies that died said that a lot of people want to leave the protocol but aren't allowed; they force them to continue under the threat that if they leave, they won't receive any other vaccine.

The article didn't state what the proposed brand name for this vaccine will be, but I imagine it comes with the standard things all the other vaccines contain -- the fillers -- that can be more harmful than the vaccine itself.

GSK is also conducting trials in Colombia and Panama for this proposed new vaccine.

So why does it seem that the drug companies are moving more towards vaccines versus drugs? Because they are shielded from lawsuits. It's all about the almighty dollar and their almighty profits, and making people sick so they can take a whole bunch of their other drugs or more vaccines to negate the effects of other vaccines.

I imagine once they've concluded their clinical trials, they'll get a green light from the FDA, who they also own, and try to convince politicians, many of whom they also own, that this new vaccine needs to be a mandated vaccine for every baby, at least here in the United States. They wouldn't dare try to market it in Europe because their governments have been known to file charges of manslaughter for their products that have harmed their citizens, the last one France for some vaccine they were sticking people with other there.

What do you all think about this new way of conducting research? Why do we automatically believe the pharmaceutical companies have "our best interests" at heart and would always be trying to make our lives better? Have you ever truly given "informed consent" when you vaccinated your children (meaning you found the list of ingredients in a Physician's Desk Reference and then researched what those fillers were)? I certainly didn't when Patrick was little. Now I wish I had asked more questions instead of just giving away my trust so easily.

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