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Polio Vaccine Tainted in Ireland
Politicians called for an independent report on the
safety of vaccines following
todays 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 inspectors 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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