1990 Experiment with Latinos & African Americans - Measles

[Guest guest]

I am reading Rollins' Ice Hunt. Rollins states in his author's notes

that in 1990, 1500 hispanic and africian american children in the Los Angeles'

area were vaccinated with an experimental measle virus that the CDC later

admitted to. I have never heard of this and was wondering if you had knowledge

of this since it was presented in Rollins' time line showing how there have

been many times in US history were people were unknowingly part of experiment.

He presents the Tuskegee experiments, etc in his timeline but does not

mention if these children were injured in anyway.

For those who are not familiar with Rollins' work, he mixes science and

fiction together but always at the end of his novels, lets the reader know what

was

fiction and fact. He presents the 1990 vaccination story as a fact.

Thanks in advance,

Kathy

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