Dr. Meyer drawing blood from a child and Dr. Parkman examining a child’s ear as part of the rubella vaccine trial at the Children’s Colony of Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas, 1966
Courtesy University of Central Arkansas Archives
Patients at the Children’s Colony in Arkansas, a residential home for children with disabilities, tested the rubella vaccine. The parents of these children consented to the testing in an effort to prevent congenital birth defects in the future.
