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China's New Vaccine Scandal: $88 Million of Illegally Sourced Products

publication date: Mar 23, 2016
China has a new drug scandal. Over the past five years, a mother-daughter team has been able to buy $88 million worth of vaccines in China and sell them for a profit in 18 provinces. Because it was a black market operation, the vaccines were not properly refrigerated, which may have rendered them either ineffective or possibly deadly. For at least the past five years, a subset of China parents have not vaccinated their children because they did not trust vaccines, which has had a negative effect on public health. Now it looks as though they had good reason to be skeptical. The scandal may give foreign-sourced vaccines a boost, because they are less likely to be caught up in black market operations.  More details....

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