Philippines to file criminal charges against pharmaceutical company reps over dengue vaccine deaths

📆 2019/03/01 18:53:00

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Manila (AFP): The Philippine government said Friday (March 1) that it would file criminal charges against six officials of French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur over the deaths of children injected with its Dengvaxia anti-dengue vaccine.

📆 2019/03/01 18:53:00
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The Philippines in 2016 was the first nation to use Dengvaxia in a mass immunisation programme, but Sanofi disclosed a year later that it could worsen symptoms for people not previously infected by the dengue virus.

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