Vaccine scandal in China – National Newspaper

The vaccine scandal in China erupted with the statement made by the Food and Drug Administration of Jilin Province last week. As a result of this study, the government announced that it has sold 252,600 DTP vaccines to the Changsheng Bio-tech disease control and prevention centers, the Shandong Province Public Health Agency.

This means that poor quality vaccines have been used up to now unknown. The DPT vaccine, used to protect against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus, is administered to children of different ages, including the smallest 3-month-old babies nationally as part of the schedule. government health. In China, social media also attracted big reactions, which led to the assessment of citizens' trust in drugs and the country's health care system again shaken. The company has been criticized for keeping its profits above human health. Changsheng means "long life" in China.

About $ 280,000 of the penalty that was cut to the company that made about $ 84 million profit last year also reacted to social media users. The company sent a statement to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, saying that they had stopped producing the vaccine, and they apologized whenever they were affected. Last November in China, the Wuhan Institute of Biologics, another vaccine manufacturer, sold 400,000 520 DTC vaccines, which are substandard, in different provinces. It is not officially explained how many children are affected by this achievement.