Speaking of human virus experiments, perhaps every Chinese will first think of the infamous Japanese Unit 731, an extermination unit that uses humans to conduct various experiments, but this time new coronavirus sweeps the world, there are other A country actually openly uses its own healthy human bodies to conduct virus experiments in modern society. This country is the United Kingdom. Then why does the United Kingdom conduct human experiments and what are the results of the experiments?
Human virus experiment
The United Kingdom using humans as experiments
February 2021, when Covid-19 is spreading, the foreign epidemic has not been well controlled, the key is that the vaccine is not Mature. At that time, more than 100 vaccine routes and programs were being studied in various laboratories around the world. However, according to the marketing process of a vaccine, after multiple phases of clinical trials, it will take about 10 years to ensure safety. Therefore, even if the new crown virus is too dangerous, each country has opened a special mode to speed up each review process under certain risk conditions. However, it will take 18 months to complete. After all, the first phase, the second phase, and the third phase. The process of the experiment must be completely completed. However, at this time, in order to overtake the vehicle in a curve, or for direct trickery, the UK directly chooses to experiment on humans.
Speeded up the normal process of the new coronavirus vaccine
2 February 2021, Imperial College London issued an announcement stating that the British Clinical Trial Ethics Committee has approved a new coronavirus "human challenge trial" The plan means that the United Kingdom has become the first country in the world to conduct a novel coronavirus "human challenge" study. The study is divided into two phases. The first phase will start in April 2021: in order to determine the virus The lowest dose; the second phase is expected to start in summer: all participants will be infected with the standard dose of the virus established in the first phase.
British report
So how do they operate?
1. recruits more than 100 British young people who voluntarily sign up : These people must be 18-30 years old,And they have never been infected with the new crown virus and are in good health. After voluntarily signing up, the medical unit will conduct detailed physical examinations on these people to ensure that there are no unhealthy diseases, no hidden diseases, etc., and the official statement: this is because of these people The body's immunity is the strongest, so the chance of experimenting with the risk is the lowest, and even if it is infected, it has a greater chance of recovering health.
Note: The final human experiment of general drugs selects people of all ages, because it is necessary to verify the universality and ensure the effect on all populations. For example, the selected by general vaccine volunteers spans 18-60 years of age, which is basically_ All span2span people allowed to be vaccinated are included, and this time the UK only has the healthiest young people. It can be seen that even the experimental unit itself is not sure about the safety of this experiment, and volunteers are required to fight with healthy bodies.
2. Let these people actively be infected with the new coronavirus: After screening at , the researchers selected the early virus strains that were transmitted in the UK in March 2020 because of the risk of infection by these strains It is smaller, and humans know more about it, and then the virus will be sprayed into the volunteers’ noses to infect the volunteers with the new coronavirus.
Expose the human body to the virus
3. detailed monitoring and observation: After infection, these people will be isolated individually, and then the medical team will carefully monitor the body of each volunteer Status, understand all the changes in the virus after entering their body, infection symptoms, appearance time, duration, disease recovery status, etc., and at the same time, by setting different external adjustments, you can understand the virus under the influence of different humidity, temperature, and food What will happen.
Isolate the virus patient
4. After completes, take money to isolate and release: If the experiment is over,And the volunteers have been in good health or recovered after treatment, then after 14 days of isolation and observation, these “volunteers” will receive £4,500 in compensation will leave the medical observation institution.
Volunteers can get a compensation of 4,500 pounds
After understanding the entire experiment process, someone will find that this process is not a human experiment? Now every vaccine will be tested in humans. Is there a difference? Have! A big difference.
The evolutionary history of human experiments
1. The earliest human virus experiment in humans
Interestingly, the earliest human experiment on human viruses was also in the United Kingdom, and the host of the experiment was called Edward Jenner , this can be said to be one of the fathers of modern medicine. He is famous for researching and promoting the vaccinia vaccine to prevent smallpox . He is called the father of immunology, and he is doing it with his neighbors. experiment of.
In 1796, he used the pustules of vaccinia to vaccinate his neighbor James Phipps to test the effect of vaccination against human smallpox. However, although this experiment opened up the study of human immunology, it is absolutely incorrect from a scientific and moral point of view. It is basically not allowed in contemporary society to allow a normal and healthy human being to take the initiative to infect the virus and carry out tests. of.
Edward Jenner inoculated his neighbor with vaccinia virus
2. Uncontrolled human experimentation is full of evil
After opening the door to human experimentation,Human beings have entered a dark period of human experimentation for a period of time. Because there are no relevant laws and regulations and the problems caused by war, many human experiments have been carried out all over the world, including but not limited to:
(1 ) American Tuskegee syphilis experiment: U.S. Department of Public Health (PHS) used free medical treatment as a temptation to convene 399 black men of African descent with syphilis and 201 healthy people who were not infected as test samples, a secret study Syphilis is harmful to the human body and deliberately not treated them. was carried out from 1932 to 1972. For 40 years in the United States, many administrations and presidents changed, but this experiment has not been interrupted.
American syphilis experiment
(2) German syphilis experiment: famous German bacteriologist Albert Neisser used the serum of syphilis patients for testing without the consent of prostitutes and orphans Syphilis vaccine.
(3) Japanese Unit 731 : used living Chinese , Korean , coalition forces prisoner of war and forgive me for biological weapons experiments with biological weapons For this unit, I don’t want to write too much, I can’t write.
The criminal unit 731
3. Standardized human experiment procedures
With the progress of society, more and more people point out the immorality of human experiments, and each The country has successively announced the prohibition of unethical human experiments,All human challenge experiments are subject to strict laws and regulations. The core document is the " Declaration of Helsinki ": 's attention to the interests of experiment subjects must always precede the interests of science and society.
In August 1975, the heads of state that signed the Helsinki Agreement
Specifically, we can compare the difference between the standardized human experiment and the British human experiment, and we can know how hard the UK is this time:
(1) The universality of research: for the sake of its effectiveness and safety in humans, the third phase of the vaccine is generally vaccinated on a large scale by tens of thousands of people. After a period of time in the natural environment, the vaccinators will test the vaccine. The protection rate is , and there are only 90 volunteers in the UK, all of whom are healthy young people. What is the universality of the data obtained like this? It is not so much studying the role of vaccines as it is studying the process of viruses in the human body.
(2) The safety of the vaccine: In regular human trials, the vaccine has undergone a large number of preliminary studies, animal experiments, etc., to ensure that the vaccine is safe even if it has no effect. However, this human experiment is completely It was carried out without confidence in the vaccine and no guarantee of absolute safety. What is this not a human experiment?
animal experiment
(3) Humanitarianism: Normal human experiment, the human body is in the natural environment, and this experiment deliberately allows volunteers to be exposed to the virus and actively infected. This is right The disregard of the lives of these volunteers.
In addition, the most important point is that if the human body goes to experiment, then the experimental diseases are either self-limiting, which means that they can be cured without treatment; or they can be completely cured through adequate treatment, and the virus can be Completely eradicate. Such an experiment can guarantee the safety of participants, and the new crown virus does not satisfy any of these items.This is completely unethical behavior.
How is the experiment now?
Since the publication of this experiment, it has received opposition and criticism from major countries and the scientific community around the world. Therefore, there are fewer reports of later experiments, but it is certain that the experiment did not terminate, but was carried out. In March 2021, it was announced that 's first batch of participants to participate in the landmark trial has now completed a period of isolation at the Royal Free Hospital in London. However, regarding the specific process of the experiment and the manifestation of the disease, volunteers have been volunteered. The patient’s personal information and all details are not disclosed on the grounds that the patient’s privacy cannot be disclosed. In the subsequent experiments, no news was revealed.
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Human experiments are the bottom line that should not be touched at any time. Some people may think that this is also to save people. The new crown virus is so powerful, early research and development, early saving lives, but the facts do not In this way, there is an old saying in our country: one must have two. If this hole is opened, human experiments can be used to actively infect the virus to study vaccines, then in the future, can this method be used to study Ebola virus, , HIV and other viruses. Volunteers will be used for experiments today. Will it be possible to use homeless people for experiments tomorrow? Will people from other countries be used for experiments the day after tomorrow? What's the difference? The British experimental program this time can be said to have opened a magic box, and I hope that this will never happen again in the future.
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