Toddler in China dies day after MMR vaccination

A two-year-old boy with the surname Hu died on Nov. 28, 2018 in China’s Hunan province. The child lost consciousness a day after being vaccinated with the MMR (mumps, measles, rubella) vaccine at a health center in the Chinese city of Changsha (Kaifu district) and was rushed to the hospital, but doctors were not able to revive him.
According to published reports, the boy had also previously been given vaccines for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus (DPT), hepatitis B, tuberculosis, polio and Hansen’s disease.
The boy had been diagnosed with a rare congenital lung malformation called horseshoe lung—a fusion of pulmonary tissue between the right and left lungs—²but he had undergone a health examination before being vaccinated and the exam “showed no abnormalities.”
Chinese health authorities are investigating the case.
On Nov. 11, 2018, the Chinese government published a draft Vaccine Management Law online for public comment. The proposed legislation would allow people to sue pharmaceutical companies for punitive damages in cases of death or serious illness caused by faulty vaccines.
The measure comes on the heels of a series of vaccine scandals in China involving defective DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis) and rabies vaccines
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