一项由卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪支持的令人不安的疫苗实验，正面临优生学指控，并被拿来与种族主义的塔斯基吉梅毒实验相提并论——但它却在非洲国家几内亚比绍推进实施。
A disturbing vaccine experiment backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been facing accusations of eugenics and has garnered comparisons to the racist Tuskegee syphilis experiment — yet it’s moving forward in the African nation of Guinea-Bissau.
这延续了特朗普政府在非洲问题上从根本上带有种族主义色彩的策略；这个大陆是总统及其盟友试图加以利用、掠夺其资源的对象，从珍贵矿产到健康数据。《卫报》早在1月就曾报道过这项肯尼迪支持的实验——数千名非洲婴儿将在出生后前六周被拒接种乙肝疫苗。当时，非洲官员在对该项目伦理及其与优生学、致命的塔斯基吉实验相似的愤怒声中，曾叫停该项目；塔斯基吉实验从20世纪30年代起，让数百名黑人男性在数十年间被拒绝梅毒治疗，以进行医学实验。
So continues the Trump administration’s fundamentally racist strategy when it comes to Africa a continent the president and his allies have sought to exploit and strip of its resources, from precious minerals health data wrote about the Kennedy-backed experiment — in which thousands of African infants are to be denied the hepatitis B vaccine for the first six weeks after birth — back in January. Around that time, it was suspended by African officials amid outrage over the project’s ethics and its similarities with eugenics and the deadly Tuskegee experiment, which saw hundreds of Black men denied syphilis treatment for decades in the name of medical experimentation, starting in the 1930s.
必须明确的是，关于新生儿接种乙肝疫苗安全性的问题，权威科学家早已给出肯定答案。尽管如此，《卫报》报道称，该实验在获得监督丹麦研究人员开展研究的伦理委员会批准后，上周继续推进；该实验部分资金来自美国疾病控制与预防中心。委员会多名成员在表决后抗议辞职，创始成员斯蒂格·伯森·汉森向该媒体表示：“你们现在让新生儿参加抽签来检验一个假设，”汉森说。
To be clear, questions about the safety of the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns have already been asked and answered in the affirmative by reputable scientists. Regardless, The Guardian reported that the experiment, which is funded partly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, moved forward last week after gaining approval from the ethics committee overseeing the Danish researchers conducting the study. Several committee members resigned in protest after the vote, including founding member Stig Børsen Hansen, who told the outlet: “You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said.
随机被选中不接种出生剂次疫苗的儿童，这些“输了抽签”的孩子，在生命最初的日子里面临感染乙肝的风险，这可能造成不可逆的终身损害。“他们因参与研究项目而感染乙肝，”汉森说，这实际上意味着他们的感染是“蓄意设计”的结果。
The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery,” face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design.”
该媒体还援引一位传染病医生的说法称，肯尼迪实际上是在利用非洲儿童：费城儿童医院的传染病医生保罗·奥菲特表示：“肯尼迪希望做到我们在这个国家不再使用出生剂量，这就是他的目标。”
The outlet also quotes an infectious disease doctor as saying Kennedy is effectively taking advantage of African children: Kennedy “wants to make it so we don’t use a birth dose here in this country,” said Paul Offit, an infectious disease physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
奥菲特补充说，由于存在严重的伦理问题，肯尼迪永远不可能在美国开展这项试验。“他在利用一个发展中国家……难道是因为非洲儿童比这里的儿童更容易被牺牲吗？”奥菲特对这项研究背后明显存在的偏见表示怀疑，而这种怀疑是有充分理由的。肯尼迪此前就因兜售种族主义伪科学而受到批评——包括去年，马里兰州民主党参议员安吉拉·阿尔索布鲁克斯曾严厉指责他声称黑人免疫系统与白人不同，因此不应与白人遵循相同的疫苗接种计划。
“That’s the goal.”Kennedy would never be able to do the trial in the US because of its significant ethical concerns, Offit added. “He’s taking advantage of a developing country … Is it because children in Africa are more expendable than children here?”Offit’s skepticism about the bias that appears to be at the heart of this study is well-earned. Kennedy has faced criticism for peddling racist pseudoscience before — including last year, when Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., took him to task for claiming that Black people have different immune systems and therefore shouldn’t be on the same vaccine schedule as white people.
去年从美国疾控中心辞职的顶尖传染病专家德梅特雷·达斯卡拉基斯博士在其辞职信中表示，优生学“在肯尼迪机构所提出的言论中占据显著地位”。
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a top infectious disease expert who resigned from the CDC last year, said in his resignation letter that eugenics “plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated” at Kennedy’s agency.
用美国纳税人的钱在非洲婴儿身上进行可能致命的实验，显然不会消除这些指控。
Spending American tax dollars to run a potentially deadly experiment on African babies obviously isn’t going to dispel those allegations. The post Trump administration’s abuse of Africa continues with vaccine study MS NOW