Do Vaccines Often Cause Serious Side Effects?
A new poll by the European Commission’s (EC) Special Eurobarometer on Vaccines found that 48 percent of European surveyed believe that vaccines often produce serious side effects, compared with 41 percent who don’t. The face-to-face poll of 27,524 respondents was conducted by European market research firm Kantar between Mar. 15 and Mar. 29, 2019 at […]
Philippines to Charge Sanofi, Public Health Officials for Dengue Vaccine Deaths
On Mar. 1, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Philippines announced that it had found probable cause to charge six officials from French vaccine manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur, 10 Philippine health officials and officials of the country’s Food and Drug Administration and its Research Institute for Tropical Medicine with reckless impudence for causing the […]
Babies Die in India After Getting “5-in-1” Vaccine
Two babies, aged six and eight weeks, died on Mar. 7, 2019 within 24 hours of receiving a “5-in-1” pentavalent vaccination at a primary health care center in Hyderabad, India. Another 32 children who received the vaccine came down with fever and at least four of them were reported to be in serious condition. All […]
Mumps-like Parotitis Strikes Crew of U.S. Navy Ship
The U.S. Navy’s amphibious warship the U.S.S. Fort McHenry (LSD-43) has been quarantined at sea for more than two months due to an outbreak of a mumps-like disease known as parotitis among its crew.1 CNN has reported that 25 sailors and Marines aboard the ship have been diagnosed with parotitis, which is characterized by inflammation […]
Equine Flu Shuts Down British Racing World
Story Highlights When three fully vaccinated horses tested positive for equine flu earlier in February, the British racing world was shut down for a week. After canceling all racing for six days and testing thousands of horses at hundreds of horse stables in England and Ireland, three more cases were identified at the original yard […]
Infant in Nepal Dies Hours After Getting DPT Vaccine
Six-month-old Binod Ale Magar died on Feb. 3, 2019 within hours after receiving the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus) vaccine at a health care station in the Kailali district of Nepal.1 The baby’s uncle said the child was in normal health when he was administered the vaccination around noon. “The child was crying after the vaccination. We […]