Published 28 August 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
“Unethical” herpes vaccine on sale in St. Kitts
as international medical scandal widens
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, AUGUST 28TH 2017 – St. Kitts and Nevis is selling a herpes vaccine, in which over 20 persons were experimented upon and deemed unethical.
The Daily Beast, a US-based publication, which it’s editor-in-chief says looks for “scoops, scandals and stories about secret worlds”, reports that an American university and a group of wealthy libertarians, including prominent Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel, backed the testing of an experimental herpes drugs in St. Kitts and Nevis between April to August in 2016.
At least US$7 million has been pumped into the trials, which did not rely on traditional US safety oversight in the first trial.
Now there is a report that the herpes vaccine has been available for purchase in St. Kitts from August 1st 2017.
Rich Mancuso, who claims he “once suffered terribly but was lucky enough to receive the herpes vaccine,”
“As of August 1st, The therapeutic vaccine Theravax, will be available for purchase in St. Kitts. All questions and information can be found on the website below,” he said on Honeycomb.com.
He posted that MINERVA is the Dominican Republic’s largest independent contract research organization (CRO). The headquarters is located in Santo Domingo, with satellite offices in Santiago de los Caballeros and Basseterre, in the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, providing comfortable access to the most important and progressive places of the Caribbean.
“They will also book visits to St. Kitts and also be facilitating the necessary interviews with Dr.Veloz and Dr. Hanley. These are the physicians who will be handling interviews and injections of the vaccine,” said Mancuso.
“This is all the information I have at the moment to share. If you need more just contact them directly. FYI I do not work for them, I’m just sharing the info so people can make choices on their own,” he wrote.
