Challenge over vaccine tests

LONDON - Babies and children with Down's syndrome were used by doctors in the 1960s to test an experimental vaccine for measles…

LONDON - Babies and children with Down's syndrome were used by doctors in the 1960s to test an experimental vaccine for measles, the British Health Minister of State, Ms Tessa Jowell, confirmed in the House of Commons yesterday.

But rather than being guinea pigs, she explained they had been targeted as being particularly at risk from damaging side effects of measles and therefore most in need of a vaccine. - (PA)

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