Philippines suspends $94m dengue vaccination programme on latest pharma alert

December 01, 2017 5:12 PM

MANILA – The Philippines has put on hold its 3.5 billion-peso (S$94 million) dengue vaccination programme, following an alert issued by French pharmaceutical giant, Sanofi Pasteur, that its Dengvaxia vaccine could prove harmful to people never infected by the mosquito-borne disease.

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