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What Happened on May 08, 1997?
HEALTH Use of experimental drug on soldiers draws fire

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May 08, 1997
WASHINGTON CNN The decision to give an antinerve gas drug to troops boundfor the Persian Gulf War in 1991 without informing them that the drug was potentially risky came under fire at a congressional hearing Thursday. Lawmakers expressed concern that the actions of thePentagon and the Food and Drug Administration violated accepted standards of medical ethics related to medical experimentation on human subjects. People should have been informed from the moment they setfoot in the desert that this drug was not licensed and that it had side effects, said U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat. They had time to tell the soldiers. They didnt do it.
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