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Before heading offshore, herpes researcher experimented on people in U.S. hotel rooms

William Halford met people with herpes in hotel rooms near his laboratory, and injected them with a experimental herpes vaccine.

Three years before launching an offshore herpes vaccine trial, an American researcher vaccinated patients in U.S. hotel rooms in brazen violation of U.S. law, a Kaiser Health News investigation has found.

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