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China's vaccines are safe: Ministry
By Wang Xiang |
April 6, 2010, Tuesday
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CHINA'S health authority said today the vaccine scandal was exaggerated, saying only three children had adverse reactions after inoculation and the nation's vaccines were safe overall.
More than a dozen of the country's top medical experts took a fortnight to determine whether 15 sick children in northern China's Shanxi Province were victims of bad vaccines, said spokesperson of the Ministry of Health Deng Haihua.
Deng said medication was an extremely complex science and that reporters' investigation was incapable of determining real scientific results.
Beijing-based China Economic Times cited a whistleblower on March 17 who said nearly 100 children had died or fallen ill in Shanxi after vaccine shots.
The report named 15 children out of 78 that received vaccines including encephalitis, hepatitis B and rabies at different times. Four children died between 2007 and 2008, and 74 became ill.
The ministry's investigation team visited Shanxi from March 19 to April 1 and examined the 15 children's medical histories, interviewed 11 children reported to be sick and talked with relatives of the four dead children, Deng said.
The four deaths were not related to vaccines, the investigation found. One died of encephalitis, one died of epilepsy and the other two were suspected to have been caused by encephalitis and central respiratory failure, he said.
Deng said the other children named in the report had nothing to do with the vaccines.
More than a dozen of the country's top medical experts took a fortnight to determine whether 15 sick children in northern China's Shanxi Province were victims of bad vaccines, said spokesperson of the Ministry of Health Deng Haihua.
Deng said medication was an extremely complex science and that reporters' investigation was incapable of determining real scientific results.
Beijing-based China Economic Times cited a whistleblower on March 17 who said nearly 100 children had died or fallen ill in Shanxi after vaccine shots.
The report named 15 children out of 78 that received vaccines including encephalitis, hepatitis B and rabies at different times. Four children died between 2007 and 2008, and 74 became ill.
The ministry's investigation team visited Shanxi from March 19 to April 1 and examined the 15 children's medical histories, interviewed 11 children reported to be sick and talked with relatives of the four dead children, Deng said.
The four deaths were not related to vaccines, the investigation found. One died of encephalitis, one died of epilepsy and the other two were suspected to have been caused by encephalitis and central respiratory failure, he said.
Deng said the other children named in the report had nothing to do with the vaccines.
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