Vienna mayor promises compensation for victims of malaria injections The USA Times

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Friday, May 25, 2012

Vienna mayor promises compensation for victims of malaria injections

VIENNA - Vienna's mayor is promising compensation for anyone injected with the parasite that causes malaria after two former foster-home children claimed to have been given such shots in the 1960s.

Mayor Michael Haeupl says it is unclear if anyone had such treatment.

But he told reporters Tuesday he has asked experts how anyone affected could be compensated.

Two Vienna hospitals are investigating claims by two men that they were injected with the malaria pathogen while they were wards of a Vienna foster home in the 1960s.

One said he was given the shot after being diagnosed with psychological problems.