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Polio Vaccine Tainted in Ireland
Politicians called for an independent report on the safety of vaccines following
today�s
announcement by the Department of Health that a blood donation from a British
donor recently
diagnosed as having a variant of CJD was used to make a polio vaccination
distributed in Ireland
two years ago.
The Department of Health announced this afternoon that there was no medical risk
to those who
received the polio vaccination produced.
Following the announcement, a political party spokesman for Health and Children,
Mr. Gay
Mitchell TD, called on the Government to appoint an independent inspector to
carry out a
review of vaccine safety and to issue a public report on the inspector�s
findings.
The Department of Health was informed last week by British authorities that
blood plasma from
British donor who has since been diagnosed as having a variant of CJD was used
to make a batch
of the product Human Serum Albumin. This product was subsequently used by the company
Evan/Medeva for its Oral Polio Vaccine which it supplied to the Irish market.
Approximately 83,500 doses of this polio vaccine was distributed in Ireland
between January 1998 and January 1999. More detailed checking is taking place
with the Health Boards over the usage of the vaccine.
The polio vaccine is administered to children aged 2, 4, and 6 months as part of
the Primary
Childhood Immunisation Programme. A booster immunisation is given at primary
school entry
age.
Some adults may also have received the vaccine as part of the recommended
immunisations for
travel to certain countries such as Asia and Eastern Europe.
The health Minister said there is no longer any British-sourced plasma material
contained in any
vaccine in use in Ireland. Evan/Medeva factory which supplied the polio vaccine
had been
investigated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who found that a lot
of its
equipment was not properly cleaned and sanitised against contamination at the
appropriate times.
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