by Matt Peters   In 2016, historian Sydney Halpern found something unexpected when she was searching library archives to learn about vaccine studies from decades past. Among the more ordinary documents was a strange batch of consent forms from the 1940s. They were from a group of civilian volunteers who agreed to be infected with hepatitis as part of a military research program during World War II. Their inoculation with the virus, it was hoped, would lead to medical advances that could keep soldiers safe from hepatitis during wartime deployments. What Halpern uncovered was a forgotten chapter in the history… Read More