MANILA, Philippines — Philippine health officials said Friday that the deaths of three children injected with a Sanofi Pasteur dengue vaccine may have “causal association” to the inoculation, including two who may have died because the vaccine failed. More than 830,000 children were injected with the Dengvaxia vaccine, health officials said. Sanofi Pasteur officials did not immediately issue any comment. WHO says about half the world’s population is at risk of dengue, with a recent estimate indicating 390 million infections per year. In the Philippines, about 200,000 dengue infections are reported each year, with less than 1 per cent resulting in deaths, the Department of Health says.

Source: National Post February 02, 2018 07:13 UTC