Almost 300 children resident in care homes in the 1960s and 70s were used in medical trials, it has been reported.
298 children in ten different care homes were involved, it was reported on Dublin radio station Newstalk this morning.
In one of the trials, 80 children became ill after they were accidentally administered a vaccine intended for cattle.
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline uncovered the experiments after it purchased one of the labs involved.
GSK was in no way involved in the trials.
The show spoke to a Christy, a former child resident of Bessborough House in Cork.
“I remember speaking to my mum and I asked her why I’d do many marks on my body, she said ‘I don’t know’ and said ‘when you arrived your arms were sore and bandaged.’”
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