- DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish
government played down public fears on Tuesday after it emerged a British
national whose blood was used to make polio vaccine administered in Ireland
had been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Health Minister
Micheal Martin said he had been advised by leading health experts that
the risk of contracting variant CJD -- the human form of bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease -- from the vaccine was zero. He
said that because of the level of dilution of the blood used in the vaccine
-- supplied by Evans/Medeva in Britain -- and the purification methods
employed, he was "100 percent sure" there was no risk. However,
the public had a right to know the information had emerged, he added. Variant
CJD has killed more than 80 people in Britain. The blood was one of 22,000
donations used to make a batch of 83,500 doses of polio vaccine administered
to some 50,000 children between January 1998 and January 1999, the health
ministry said. The product was made specifically for Ireland"s vaccination
campaign at that time and was unlikely to have been used elsewhere, it
added.
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