Child victims checked in tainted vaccine probe

By Jane Chen | March 22, 2010, Monday |

Online Edition

A TASK group from Health Ministry investigating allegations of tainted vaccines in north China's Shanxi Province will check all 76 children who became ill after the jabs, the ministry said on its Website today.

Eight medical experts have arrived in Shanxi to guide the local health authority's investigation, a Shanxi health official told today's Health News.

"Before collecting sound proof, it's still not justified to say the children died or got sick because of the tainted vaccines, even though they were vaccinated before developing diseases or dying," he added.

The investigation will discover whether the vaccines had been spoiled after being exposed to heat due to poor storage and whether the numbers of adverse reactions in Shanxi are abnormally high, the official said.

Some parents and Chen Tao'an, a former official with Shanxi Disease Control & Prevention Center who blew the whistle on the tainted vaccination scandal, said they had had received SMS messages threatening to injure them to stop their complaints, today's Guangzhou Daily reported.

The messages read: "Our boss will give you 50,000 yuan (US$7,324) if you stop complaining about the vaccines, or it will be very easy for us to find someone to cut off your leg."

The messages were traced to a number in Fuyang City, east China's Anhui Province, the report said.

The vaccination accusations were first reported last Wednesday by China Economic Times. According to the report, two babies and two toddlers in Shanxi died and another 76 became ill after being jabbed against hepatitis B, rabies and Type-B encephalitis.

Lawyer Li Fangping from Beijing yesterday submitted a request to Shanxi Health Bureau to publish government documents concerning the tainted vaccines, today's China Youth Daily said.

The bureau must reply within 15 working days, according to government information disclosure rules.

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Child victims checked in tainted vaccine probe

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