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Wednesday, December 22, 2004Thousands of families, concerned at reports that autism could be linked to the controversial all-in-one measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab, paid £70 to have separate inoculations for their children at Pugh’s Elstree Aerodrome clinic, the court was told. The practice treated around 250 children a week and had a weekly turnover of around £17,500 at the height of the autism scare in 2002. But parents flooded the clinic with calls 18 months ago after a newspaper report that inoculations given at the clinic might not be effective, because of the way they were being prepared and stored. Pugh, who also ran a private clinic in Sheffield, offered free blood tests to worried parents in an attempt to prove whether or not their child was protected by the jab. But he then changed test results which showed that children had not been properly inoculated, to deceive parents and protect his business. Pugh inserted the results of a blood test on his 26-year-old daughter Josephine, who was inoculated against the three diseases, into negative blood tests on two of his child patients. posted by Sydney on 12/22/2004 01:08:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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