Health ‘has no data’ on fifth child vaccine trial

The Department of Health has said it has "no information" on where, or in what institution, a previously undisclosed fifth vaccine trial on children here in the 1960s took place.

The trial, revealed by the Irish Examiner on Monday, was carried out in 1965 on 34 infants by Glaxo Laboratories — a legacy company of pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

GSK has previously only admitted to four vaccine trials having ever been carried out in Ireland.