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(NaturalNews) More than 70 children in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi have
suffered severe side effects from defective vaccines in the past several years, the China
Economic Times has reported.
According to the state-run media, vaccines including those against hepatitis B and rabies
were exposed to excessive heat through improper storage between 2006 and 2008. According
to the World Health Organization, this can cause vaccines to denature and become
dangerous, but the Times reports that the vaccines were not properly destroyed
and were administered to children instead. More than 70 children suffered serious side effects, and four died.
Wang Mingliang said that his baby son Xiao'er began to suffer from spasms and trouble
breathing shortly after receiving a hepatitis
B vaccine.
"We spent more than seven months trying to get him well, from Western medicine to traditional Chinese
medicine, and none of it worked," Wang said. "None of the hospitals we went to
managed to find a cause for his illness, and that's when we started suspecting the
vaccine."
The child died several months later.
Another child, Qiang Qiang, developed epilepsy and a learning disability after a vaccine
against Japanese encephalitis.
"His teacher at school tells us he is dumb, that he has short memory and cannot
follow classes," his father Gao Changhong said. "We have spent nearly 60,000
yuan ($8,800) to try to cure him, and we really hope the government will take this
situation seriously."
While the Chinese health ministry has acknowledged that the vaccines were improperly
managed, it denies any connection between the vaccines and the four deaths.
State-run media have also exposed a drug firm in Jiangsu province for using an unapproved
additive that allowed the company's rabies vaccine to pass inspection but made it less
potent. In this case, the Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged the use of
"inferior materials," and said it had ordered the company to stop production.
(8.19.2010, David Gutierrez) http://www.naturalnews.com/z029518_vaccines_China.html
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