Professor Denis McDevitt
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[June 2007 Private Eye] MMR Conflict of Interest Zone

[May 2007] GMC Challenged On MMR Inquiry Chief's Vaccine Firm Links

JCVI Committee
[8 March 1988] [copy 2] Salisbury, McDevitt, HULL, Meadow, Miller,
[17 Sept 1990]  Salisbury, McDevitt Meadow, Miller 

See: JCVI  URABE
Wakefield GMC Hearing 2007
[May 2007] MMR judge faces probe over brother's link to vaccine firm
[May 2007] MMR JUDGE FAILED TO DISCLOSE HE WAS BROTHER OF Glaxo SmithKline DIRECTOR AND LANCET BOSS

However, previously secret government minutes reveal Professor McDevitt was himself a member of a 1988 government safety panel  which approved Pluserix MMR as safe for vaccine manufacturer Smith Kline & French Laboratories (see first .pdf attached). [May 2007] GMC Challenged On MMR Inquiry Chief's Vaccine Firm Links

"Prof Denis McDevitt,.....attended meetings that discussed warnings from other countries about an early form of the triple jab, using the Urabe strain of mumps virus, which caused encephalitis and meningitis. Despite warnings and the fact that this vaccine had already been withdrawn in Canada, the Urabe-containing jab was introduced in the UK in 1988.  Some of the 12 children whose medical history featured in the controversial 1998 Lancet paper, drawn up by Dr Wakefield and his colleagues and which suggested a possible link between the jab and bowel disease and regressive autism, had received the Urabe-strain vaccine - as indeed had some of those children in the high court litigation with manufacturers." [June 2007 Private Eye] MMR Conflict of Interest Zone