The boy, who was born on February 5, was injected with 0.5mg of the BCG vaccine - 10 times the usual 0.05mg dose, lawyers for his family said.Source: The Telegraph
A statement from law firm Irwin Mitchell said the boy is now being treated with help from the poisons agency and an expert in immunology at Sheffield Children's Hospital.
A spokesman for Scunthorpe General Hospital said it had launched a ''full investigation''...
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Newborn baby given overdose of tuberculosis vaccine
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