Japan Halts Pfizer, Sanofi Vaccines After Four Infants Die

March 7th, 2011

Via: Reuters:

Japan’s health ministry has halted the use of vaccines made by Pfizer Inc and Sanofi-Aventis SA to prevent meningitis and pneumonia following the deaths of four children.

The infants died shortly after receiving the vaccines and while it was unclear if there was link between the deaths and vaccines, use of Pfizer’s Prevenar and Sanofi’s ActHIB will be suspended while the deaths are investigated, the ministry said in a statement.

A ministry safety panel is scheduled to discuss findings in the investigations on Tuesday.

In February last year health authorities in the Netherlands said no relation was found between Prevenar and the deaths of three infants who had received the vaccine.

Three of the children that died in Japan were administered Prevenar together with ActHIB. In addition, three of the children also received a mixed vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus on the same day they received the other vaccines.

Three of the four children died a day after being immunized.

4 Responses to “Japan Halts Pfizer, Sanofi Vaccines After Four Infants Die”

  1. tochigi says:

    saw this on the news last night.
    i thought, “oh, so now the Japanese health ministry has joined the ranks of us vaccine conspiracy theorists“.

    not laughing at all.
    atrocity exhibition.

    as they say, nothing to see here, move along.

  2. Kevin says:

    Coincidence! Coincidence! Coincidence! Only stark raving lunatics would dare to consider any other explanations.

  3. tochigi says:

    this was on the news again last night. and guess what? you were right Kevin. there was a large committee convened (doctors, “experts”) to get to the bottom of it. the vaccines are still not cleared for use, but their preliminary finding is:

    “Coincidence! Coincidence! Coincidence!”

    i kid you not. they said, “there is no proven causal link between the vaccines and the deaths.”

    they are now looking into the circumstances of each individual child’s health to confirm that the deaths had nothing to do with the vaccines.

    nothing to see here, move along.

  4. Kevin says:

    Coincidence is always the official explanation. It has to be.

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