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Children Took Part In Drug Trials

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10:21 9 Jun 2014


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Almost 300 children were subjected to experimental drug trials at mother and baby homes in Ireland in the 1960s and 70s.

In one of the trials, at 5 Dublin care homes and orphanages in the 1970s, 80 children became unwell after allegedly being given a vaccine intended for cattle.

The news comes as the Government decides what powers and scope a potential inquiry into mother and baby homes could have.

Christy was one of the children given the experimental vaccines..


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