Stolen vaccine a potential threat
PA Auckland The Health Department fears a box of potentially dangerous tuberculosis vaccine, stolen in Auckland last week end, may fall into the wrong hands. Ten boxes of bottled B.C.G. tuberculosis vaccine were stolen from the department in Ponsonby. The Medical Officer of Health in Auckland, Dr John Stephenson, said the vaccine was a variant of
live tuberculosis organism, and dangerous if injected. “The danger is we do not know how these people intend using it,” Dr Stephenson said. "If it is used wrongly, there could be trouble.” Also stolen were six boxes of the drugs mantoux and heaf, both used in testing for tuberculosis. All the drugs are in liquid form, in small bottles with rubber stoppers.
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Press, 29 January 1986, Page 8
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