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There Is No Doubt That Glaxo Is A Problem !
UK Observer July 8, 2001
Drug Company Admits Unsafe Vaccines Were Used
The former UK company Wellcome allowed thousands of babies to be
inoculated in the 1960s and 1970s with toxic whooping cough vaccines it
knew had not passed crucial safety tests, the Observer, a UK newspaper,
claimed on July 8.
It said its investigations showed that two batches of the firm's vaccine
were more than 14 times more potent than the standard dose and 14 other
batches containing thousands of vaccine doses were not put through a
crucial toxicity test.
One of the toxic batches was the same batch that led the Irish Supreme
Court in 1992 to award £2.7 million (US$3.8 million) in compensation to
Kenneth Best, a Cork boy who suffered permanent brain damage. At the time
the Irish judge accused Wellcome of negligence and attacked the company's
poor quality control at its Kent laboratory.
Now, 9 years after the award, the newspaper said the Irish Department of
Health had received details from GlaxoSmithKline about the batch--numbered
3741--and was tracing 296 Irish children who were inoculated with it.
Glaxo Wellcome merged with SmithKline Beecham to form GlaxoSmithKline in
late 2000.
The newspaper added that pressure from Denis Naughten, a senior Irish
Member of Parliament (MP), has forced other disclosures from the company,
including the fact that a second batch of vaccine, numbered 3732, produced
by Wellcome around the same time, was even more potent than that used on
Best in 1968.
In the 3 years after Wellcome produced the toxic batches, dozens of
British parents believed their children suffered brain damage or even died
as a result of the whooping cough vaccine. But their views were dismissed
by drug companies and health officials.
The report quotes Gordon Stewart, emeritus professor of public health at
Glasgow University, as saying the revelations are "scandalous." Stewart,
who in 1984 was asked by the government's Chief Scientific Officer to
investigate a link between brain damage and the vaccine, said he advised
the Department of Health about these potential toxic batches in 1989 but
they did not act.
His report, which was never published by the government but has been seen
by The Observer, is highly critical of the whooping cough vaccine used at
this time, which he believes was toxic.
Ian Stewart, Labor MP and chair of the all-party Commons committee on the
vaccine issue, said he would be holding an emergency meeting of the
committee this week and tabling a series of parliamentary questions.
He said, "The families need to know the truth."
"If it can be shown that Glaxo Wellcome were negligent in allowing toxic
vaccines to be used, then the company must face up to its
responsibilities."
The families of vaccine-injured children receive £100,000 compensation
from a government fund financed by the taxpayer. Stewart believes if the
firm is at fault, then they should pay compensation, which would be
significantly more.
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Page 9
There Is No Doubt That Glaxo Is A Problem !
UK Observer July 8, 2001
Drug Company Admits Unsafe Vaccines Were Used
The former UK company Wellcome allowed thousands of babies to be
inoculated in the 1960s and 1970s with toxic whooping cough vaccines it
knew had not passed crucial safety tests, the Observer, a UK newspaper,
claimed on July 8.
It said its investigations showed that two batches of the firm's vaccine
were more than 14 times more potent than the standard dose and 14 other
batches containing thousands of vaccine doses were not put through a
crucial toxicity test.
One of the toxic batches was the same batch that led the Irish Supreme
Court in 1992 to award £2.7 million (US$3.8 million) in compensation to
Kenneth Best, a Cork boy who suffered permanent brain damage. At the time
the Irish judge accused Wellcome of negligence and attacked the company's
poor quality control at its Kent laboratory.
Now, 9 years after the award, the newspaper said the Irish Department of
Health had received details from GlaxoSmithKline about the batch--numbered
3741--and was tracing 296 Irish children who were inoculated with it.
Glaxo Wellcome merged with SmithKline Beecham to form GlaxoSmithKline in
late 2000.
The newspaper added that pressure from Denis Naughten, a senior Irish
Member of Parliament (MP), has forced other disclosures from the company,
including the fact that a second batch of vaccine, numbered 3732, produced
by Wellcome around the same time, was even more potent than that used on
Best in 1968.
In the 3 years after Wellcome produced the toxic batches, dozens of
British parents believed their children suffered brain damage or even died
as a result of the whooping cough vaccine. But their views were dismissed
by drug companies and health officials.
The report quotes Gordon Stewart, emeritus professor of public health at
Glasgow University, as saying the revelations are "scandalous." Stewart,
who in 1984 was asked by the government's Chief Scientific Officer to
investigate a link between brain damage and the vaccine, said he advised
the Department of Health about these potential toxic batches in 1989 but
they did not act.
His report, which was never published by the government but has been seen
by The Observer, is highly critical of the whooping cough vaccine used at
this time, which he believes was toxic.
Ian Stewart, Labor MP and chair of the all-party Commons committee on the
vaccine issue, said he would be holding an emergency meeting of the
committee this week and tabling a series of parliamentary questions.
He said, "The families need to know the truth."
"If it can be shown that Glaxo Wellcome were negligent in allowing toxic
vaccines to be used, then the company must face up to its
responsibilities."
The families of vaccine-injured children receive £100,000 compensation
from a government fund financed by the taxpayer. Stewart believes if the
firm is at fault, then they should pay compensation, which would be
significantly more.
*
ALL INFORMATION, DATA, AND MATERIAL CONTAINED, PRESENTED, OR PROVIDED HERE
IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS
REFLECTING THE KNOWLEDGE OR OPINIONS OF THE PUBLISHER, AND IS NOT TO BE
CONSTRUED OR INTENDED AS PROVIDING MEDICAL OR LEGAL ADVICE.*
Source:*** http://www.vaccinationnews.com*** Vaccination News
This page re-produced with thanks to Vaccination News