Guinea Bissau seizes doses of baby vaccines linked to controversial US study

Police in Guinea-Bissau have seized a batch of vaccines from a facility affiliated with a stalled, US-funded hepatitis B immunisation trial on newborn babies that the WHO has slammed as "unethical".The study, which would randomise whether or not 14,000 newborns in the highly impoverished west African nation receive a hepatitis B vaccine birth dose,was suspended pending further technical review, the WHO said in February.The Guinea-Bissau judicial police said that on Monday they carried out a "seizure of a batch of hepatitis B vaccines intended for the immunisation of children in the country".The vaccines were confiscated at the Bandim Health Project, which is led by Danish researchers in charge of the hepatitis B testing.The Danish researchers' previous work has looked into alleged vaccine harms, and their methods have come under scrutiny by the scientific community.‘Proven safety records’The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had awarded a $1.6 million grant for…