Revealed: Thousands of Irish orphans were used as ‘drug guinea pigs’
Published time: June 09, 2014 23:35
Edited time: June 11, 2014 11:16
Edited time: June 11, 2014 11:16
Over 2,000 care-home kids were secretly vaccinated against diphtheria in the 1930s in medical trials undertaken by international drugs giant Burroughs Wellcome, Irish media reveal. Among the testing sites was a recently discovered mass grave.
The medical records cited by the Irish Daily Mail show that some 2,051 children and babies across several Irish care homes may have been subjected to the practice.