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2000-01
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) blood, (b) biopsy and (c) tissue samples taken from any Gulf War veterans have been sent to Porton Down for tests; and what the results of such tests were. - Inc figures. (Holding answer 1 February 2001).
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) blood, (b) biopsy and (c) tissue samples taken from any Gulf War veterans have been sent to Porton Down for tests; and what the results of such tests were. - Inc figures. (Holding answer 1 February 2001).
Asked by
Alex Salmond
(Scottish National Party)
Answered by
Lord Spellar
(Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
29 January 2001
For answer on
2 February 2001
Answered on
2 February 2001
Mr. Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what (a) blood, (b) biopsy and (c) tissue samples taken from any Gulf War
veterans have been sent to Porton Down for tests; and what the results of such tests were. [148210]
Mr. Spellar: [holding answer 1 February 2001]: A number of blood samples that were collected from the UK Service personnel during
the Gulf conflict at various stages of the anti-biological warfare agent vaccination programme are currently stored at Chemical
Biological Defence (CBD), Porton Down. These samples were analysed in 1991 with the aim of investigating the level of protection
conferred by giving anthrax vaccine in combination with pertussis vaccine. The results of the study were given in a paper "Operation
GRANBY: The effect of co-administration of the pertussis vaccine on specific antibody titre development to the anthrax vaccine in
man", which was declassified and made publicly available on 28 October 1997.
There are 244 vials of sera held at CBD Porton Down. We know of another 38 vials that have been destroyed or lost. We have
identified 188 donors of 245 of this total of 282 that we either have, or have been lost. In February and March 2000, all the donors
who had been identified were contacted. The Ministry of Defence offered to send them the sample or to keep it at CBD Porton Down.
Apart from these blood samples, we have no records of other biological samples form Gulf veterans having been tested at CBD Porton
Down. However, blood samples taken for the Gulf Veterans' Medical Assessment Programme (GVMAP) at St. Thomas' Hospital, London, are
either tested on site or sent to laboratories that have particular expertise in specific tests. Up until December 2000, 0.5 ml of
blood taken from Gulf veterans was sent to the Centre for Applied Microbiological Research (CAMR) at Porton Down for sandfly fever
testing. CAMR is a Department of Health Special Health Authority. It is completely separate from CBD Porton Down, which is a
Ministry of Defence facility.
Subjects
Armed forces; Chemical and biological warfare; Blood; Iraq-Kuwait conflict; Medical examinations; Research; Vaccination; Gulf War syndrome; Defence Evaluation and Research Agency; Body samples; Veterans; Porton Down (Wiltshire)
Date
2 February 2001
Reference
362 c309-10W; 148210
House
House of Commons