Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is filing a federal lawsuit accusing the U.S. government of using two Black infants in experimental RSV vaccine trials during the 1960s without their families’ knowledge or consent. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the families of Ross Otto Hambrick and Victor Marcellus King, alleges that the infants were enrolled in an NIH-sponsored experimental RSV vaccine study before dying in 1967. The complaint claims that the government intentionally selected vulnerable Black infants for a dangerous experimental vaccine trial known as “Lot 100,” and that tissue samples taken during the infants’ autopsies contributed to the development of RSV vaccines approved by the FDA in 2023. The families were allegedly not informed about the experiments for decades and have never received compensation or acknowledgment from the government. The legal team is seeking justice and accountability from the United States government on behalf of the Hambrick and King families.
Families of two Black infants allege decades-old government-backed vaccine testing without consent.
