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It lasted one year, from October 1993 to October 1994. The homeless people who showed at the emergency rooms of “Hôpitaux de Marseille” were treated by local medical teams. Of these, 43 were admitted to the hospital and underwent a whole series of exams and blood tests. During the same period, blood was also taken from 57 hospital patients who were not homeless. Finally, one of the team's doctors also went out to meet the homeless people in the city's shelters, again to collect blood. 211 people had their blood drawn. The goal of this huge operation ? To detect traces of infection in homeless people witha bacterium - Bartonella quintana - transmitted by lice and responsible for trench fever. This research was led by a promising doctor, Didier Raoult, who was unknown to the general public at the time.
He and his team published their findings of this work in the scientific journal Clinical Infectious Disease in 1996. The problem was that the article made no mention of any authorization to conduct experiments on human beings. When asked about this, Professor Raoult did not respond to our requests. As for his colleague, Professor Philippe Brouqui, the first author of the article, he did not wish to reply.
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It was apparently at this time that a kind of “Marseille Doctrine” on human experimentation was established. It could be summed up in a few words: this is not a research project, but rather standard care. The main advantage of this vision is that, unlike human research, care does not require any control, authorization or agre...
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