Hideous Wooldridge-Reith disease spreads
The Prime Minister is facing calls for a public inquiry into a defence minister whose drugs company covered up that it had given faulty TB jabs to as many as 900,000 children.
Lord Drayson, who was given a peerage and a job as a defence minister after donating more than £1million to Labour Party coffers, is now facing calls to quit over the activities of the PowderJect firm.
Papers released under the Freedom of Information Act show his company knew that nine batches of its TB vaccine failed quality control checks but no-one alerted regulators or the NHS for nearly two years.
The scandal was uncovered three years ago by the Medicines Control Agency but has only now been made public thanks to an investigation by the BBC's Money Programme.
Irish health officials who brought the same suspect batch of the BCG vaccine found that two per cent of children inoculated had to have a second dose because they were not protected.
If the results were the same in the UK, some 18,000 children out of the 900,000 who were vaccinated may not be protected.
Lord Drayson is also facing claims that he has a conflict of interest, since PowderJect also sold anthrax vaccines to the Ministry of Defence.
Senior Labour backbencher Ian Gibson said the vaccine cover- up "doesn't smell as sweetly as it might". He added: "We need a public inquiry." END
Irish connection could be ol swine-flu Haughey...developing...see Jack Abramoff too
Lord Drayson, who was given a peerage and a job as a defence minister after donating more than £1million to Labour Party coffers, is now facing calls to quit over the activities of the PowderJect firm.
Papers released under the Freedom of Information Act show his company knew that nine batches of its TB vaccine failed quality control checks but no-one alerted regulators or the NHS for nearly two years.
The scandal was uncovered three years ago by the Medicines Control Agency but has only now been made public thanks to an investigation by the BBC's Money Programme.
Irish health officials who brought the same suspect batch of the BCG vaccine found that two per cent of children inoculated had to have a second dose because they were not protected.
If the results were the same in the UK, some 18,000 children out of the 900,000 who were vaccinated may not be protected.
Lord Drayson is also facing claims that he has a conflict of interest, since PowderJect also sold anthrax vaccines to the Ministry of Defence.
Senior Labour backbencher Ian Gibson said the vaccine cover- up "doesn't smell as sweetly as it might". He added: "We need a public inquiry." END
Irish connection could be ol swine-flu Haughey...developing...see Jack Abramoff too
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