The Department of Health (DOH) is looking into the case of a 12-year-old child who contracted dengue despite being immunized with a vaccine made by the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur. The government intends to sue Sanofi after authorities suspended the company’s Dengvaxia vaccine in response to its own warning that the drug could lead to severe infections in some cases, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said on Thursday. Report from provinceADVERTISEMENTCiting a report he had received from a hospital in Pampanga province, Duque said the child received Dengvaxia three times: in March 2016, October 2016 and August 2017. “The child received protection but after the child was bitten [by a mosquito], the child showed symptoms of dengue. The doctors said it was severe dengue with hypertension bradycardia,” Duque said in Filipino.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 07, 2017 23:26 UTC