The Pan American Health Organization has warned that there are offers of fake vaccines in Argentina

The deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Jarbas Barbosa, warned this Wednesday April 21 about the existence of fake coronavirus vaccine offers at Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The director considered it a “risk to your health“and a” problem “for health and police authorities:” Illegal markets offer probably counterfeit vaccines, not the real vaccine, or maybe they are stolen from a health center. “

Consulted on a newspaper article The Wall Street Journal about the sale of fraudulent vaccines from the laboratory Pfizer in Mexico, Barbosa said: “Yes, we have received information from Mexico, Argentina and Brazil that some were offered dose via social media“.

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“The Illegal markets offer possibly counterfeit vaccines, not the real vaccine, or maybe they are stolen from a health facility and no one can guarantee that they are stored correctly, “Barbosa said at a press conference.” So it is clearly a problem, not only for the health authorities, but also for the police, to identify this activity criminal, ”he said.

In this sense, Barbosa insisted that only vaccines administered by health authorities can be trusted because only these are guaranteed to be “safe and effective” and kept in good conditions, said the agency AFP.

“Therefore, it is very important refuse to buy any type of vaccine offered on social networks and on the Internet“he urged.” It’s a risk to your health“, he underlined.

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The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Pfizer investigates with Mexican authorities the administration of fake anticovid vaccines in Mexico.

The newspaper noted that United States Mexico and other countries have detected “dozens of websites“that they somehow assert fraudulent sale of doses of Pfizer and also from the American laboratory Modern.

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