GUINEA-BISSAU STOPS VACCINE STUDY FUNDED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. (PHOTO).

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 Guinea-Bissau stops vaccine study funded by Trump administration Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, including any links to autism. The West African country, one of the region's poorest, has high rates of hepatitis B, and the prospective study had drawn an outcry from scientists and international health bodies because only half the newborns in the trial would get the vaccine at birth. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said it was not ethical. Guinea-Bissau last month suspended the trial pending an ethical review. Critics had said it was being used to test theories linking vaccines to autism, long promoted by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr but contradicted by scientific evidence. Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira said in an interview on Tuesday that the study had been closed, citing concer...

SAMSON SIASIA'S MOTHER,FREED TODAY BY THE POLICE IN BAYELSA STATE,FROM HER KIDNAPPERS.

                   72 year old Mrs Beauty Siasia,the mother of Samson Siasaia who was kidnapped early this month was released today.According ASP Asinmi Butswat,police spokesman in Bayelsa said the kidnappers freed the victim following a clampdown on their location by men of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of police in the state.He said that the victim,72,who was abducted on November 16,was dropped off at about 1:30am today saturday.''She is hale and hearty and has been reunited with her family and the police have intensified efforts to arrest the fleeing suspects''.Samson Siasia is the coach for the Nigerian Under-23 National Team.

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