MANILA, Philippines — A government official has surfaced to spill the beans on alleged anomalies in the P3.5-billion dengue immunization program of the previous administration, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II has revealed. A lookout bulletin order was earlier issued against former president Benigno Aquino III, former health secretary Janette Garin and six other officials who approved the program in 2015. De Guzman received Dengvaxia vaccine on April 16, 2016 through a school vaccination project at Sisiman Elementary School in Bataan. He claimed that the DOH’s investigating panel saw no proof linking Dengvaxia vaccination to the reported cases of fatalities and instead cited “overwhelming data on the efficacy” of the Dengvaxia vaccine. In Caraga region, DOH regional director Jose Llacuna said his office is monitoring more than 290 elementary pupils who received the Dengvaxia vaccine.

Source: Philippine Star December 24, 2017 16:13 UTC