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TB vaccine tested on aboriginals, but living conditions not fixed: research

29.7.13

TB vaccine tested on aboriginals, but living conditions not fixed: research: It’s another example of how officials felt they could use aboriginal people as test subjects and looked for cheap solutions instead of fixing underlying problems, says Maureen Lux, a Brock University medical historian whose research is to be released in a book early next year...“If (a vaccine) could provide resistance to TB, then we didn’t need to deal with the economic situation that was causing the problem,” said Lux, who first exposed the TB tests in a 1998 paper.

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