4-Year-Old Chinese Boy Dies After Being Inoculated by State-Provided Vaccine

Sudden, mysterious deaths of toddlers in Chinese hospitals have resulted in various scandals before.
4-Year-Old Chinese Boy Dies After Being Inoculated by State-Provided Vaccine
This picture taken on April 5, 2013 shows a Chinese boy getting flu treatment at a hospital in Hefei, east China's Anhui province. STR/AFP/Getty Images
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On March 8, after four days of emergency care, a four-year-old boy in southern China succumbed to complications arising from a vaccine provided courtesy of the state healthcare system.

The boy, surnamed Shen, had developed a fever after being injected with the vaccine in the morning of March 4, the Health and Family Planning Bureau in Zijin County, Guangdong Province, told state media. An autopsy is underway and results are expected to be out within a month.

Juliet Song
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Juliet Song is an international correspondent exclusively covering China news for NTD. She primarily contributes to NTD's "China in Focus," covering U.S.-China relations, the Chinese regime's human rights abuses, and domestic unrest inside China.
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