Shanxi vaccine scandal

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The Beijing-based China Economic Times reported on March 17 that improperly stored vaccines administered by the Shanxi Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had killed four children and sickened more than 70 others who had been vaccinated between 2006 and 2008.

 

China's Ministry of Health sent an investigation team to Shanxi from March 19 to April 1. It confirmed on April 6 that three children had fallen ill in connection to vaccines in the northern Shanxi Province, but it denied the vaccines were problematic.

News:

•  Vaccines involved in 3 children's illness

•  Bad vaccines may still be on the shelves

•  Experts to investigate vaccine problems

•  Whistleblower claims vaccines stored wrong

•  Vaccine probe: Ex-health chief accused of graft 

•  Families want a shot of truth

 

Opinion:

•  Needling the authorities

•  A chain of corruption

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gov't efforts:

 Investigation into vaccine scandal

• Experts sent to investigate vaccine problems

• Probe ordered into tainted vaccines

• China to step up monitoring of a faulty rabies

• Shanxi discloses investigation result on tainted vaccines

• 2 drug makers ordered to halt production

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related report on rabies vaccine scandal

 

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