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No way to treat a pioneer

Apr 20 2003

By Phil Doherty

 

A leading charity has called for a public inquiry into the way a top mad cow disease expert has been treated by the establishment.

Harash Narang was the first scientist to make the link between the illness and its human equivalent- variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - in 1990.

Dr Narang says he was made redundant from his job at Newcastle's Public Health Laboratory Services after making his findings known.

He claims that he lost his post after the then Health Minister Stephen Dorrell ordered all the lab's work on the killer disease to cease.

Since he became a whistle-blower, he says, he has not been able to get lab time in the UK to continue his work.

Dr Narang has since moved to the United States.

He is now working at the CJD surveillance unit based at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

CJD Foundation head Noel Baldwin, who lost his son Patrick to the killer disease, said: "There is more and more information coming out that proves Dr Narang was right all along.

Medical

"He said years ago that CJD could be found in blood and passed on by transfusions and medical instruments. This has now been accepted.

"He argued that BSE could cause both sporadic as well as vCJD, and recent research has shown this to be correct. He also invented a urine test which shows if someone is harbouring the disease."

Mr Baldwin also rued the Government's decision to pull Medical Research Council funding from Dr Narang.

He said: "Now it looks as if the US will benefit financially from this ground-breaking research.

"The UK establishment has ignored him for more than 10 years. We believe those responsible should be made accountable for this because if they had listened to Dr Narang maybe some of those poor people wouldn't have died from this terrible disease.

Scandal

"This is a national scandal that needs to be fully addressed by a public inquiry.

"We are planning to launch this campaign in the next few months and will be involving sympathetic MPs to get this issue aired in the House of Commons."

 

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