NIAID: Study participants exposed to tainted HIV vaccine
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the EuroVacc Foundation of Switzerland on 13 May said about 94 study participants were exposed during two trials to an investigational HIV vaccine contaminated with the bacterium Mycoplasma hyorhinis, which is known to cause disease in pigs but not in humans.