The 10-year-old girl in
Mariveles, Bataan died of severe dengue after 6 months that she was given a vaccine
for the mosquito-borne illness.
Currently, it is now at the center of a health scare,
the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption.
Hence, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) of the Philippines has ordered French pharmaceutical giant
Sanofi Pasteur to stop the sale and distribution of Dengvaxia “to protect the
general public” from health risks associated with the world’s first anti-dengue
vaccine, even as a death certificate indicated that a girl in Bataan,
identified as Christine Gomez de Guzman, had died of dengue after receiving the
initial dose of the vaccine.
The fatality from
Bataan, "Christine Mae", had no prior dengue history when Sisiman
Elementary School gave her the vaccine in April 6, 2016, her parents told VACC,
the group's founding chairman Dante Jimenez said.
Moreover, some 733,000
public school students have been vaccinated with Dengvaxia since 2016, when the
Philippines became the first country to start using it on a mass scale.
Sanofi however had said
Dengvaxia would not cause anyone who was immunized to die and that potential
cases of "severe dengue" would not be fatal.
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