Illinois regulators suspended a Chicago doctor who allegedly gave patients vaccinations containing cat saliva and vodka.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation cited Dr. Ming Te Lin after hearing complaints that children were being administered unapproved oral versions of childhood shots developed by the doctor.
Investigators who visited Lin’s office discovered a cluttered, unsterile office, and a “box filled with vials and tubes that [Lin] was using to make his own vaccinations.”
Lin admitted to the investigators that he’s been making his own “alternative” vaccinations for over a decade. Children as young as a week-old infant received the unapproved oral vaccines.
Lin added vodka and cat saliva gathered by a cotton swab to some vaccines, investigators say.