Chinese netizens slam vaccine scandal on US embassy page

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Internet users vented their anger and disappointment with the Chinese authorities on the social media account of the US embassy in Beijing, after it posted an article on Monday about how the US regulator made improvements following a vaccine accident six decades ago.

The article – on what was known in America as the Cutter incident – comes at a sensitive time, after more than half a million Chinese children were found to have been given a faulty DPT vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus in the country’s worst public health scare in recent years.

More than 1,000 commented on the article, which was liked more than 1,800 times and shared over 2,700 times after it was posted on Weibo around 11.30am on Monday. This is the third posting by the embassy on vaccines – including one on how vaccine regulations work in the US – since the scandal unfolded last week.

One of the two producers of the faulty DPT vaccines, Changchun Changsheng Bio-technology, was also being investigated for forging production data and undermining production protocol when producing a rabies vaccine.

According to the embassy posting, in 1955, more than 40,000 children in the US received a polio vaccine, manufactured by the California-based family firm Cutter Laboratories, in which the process of inactivating the live virus proved to be defective. Some 200 children were left with varying degrees of paralysis and 10 died.

The posting said the US Congress held the Laboratory of Biologics Control affiliated to the US government responsible for the incident and two senior officials resigned over it. The “most direct consequence” of the Cutter incident was that the US government established a strict vaccine approval and regulation system.

Internet users reacted strongly to the posting and expressed their distrust of the Chinese regulatory system.

Source: South China Morning Post

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157525/us-embassys-social-media-account-used-slam-chinas-vaccine-scandal

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