Illegal vaccine scandal in China
posted on Apr 14, 2016 @ 2:49PM
An illegal vaccine scandal is shaking the parents of china. Its being called as Shandong vaccine scandal named after the epic centre of the scandal. The illegal vaccine ring was reportedly in operation since 2011, till it was busted in April 2015. Still the Chinese police officials has kept it secret fearing a public outrage. It was only in last month that the authorities issued a call to trace the potential victims. The working of scandal is quite simple.
A few culprits purchased the vaccines from licensed and unlicensed sources, and then sold them on to other agents or local hospitals for high prices. Such vaccines mishandled could have either resulted in adverse side affects or could have been useless in preventing the diseases. Chinese officials are now tracing down the scandal to the individuals. Cases were laid against 357 officials who have corroborated with the unofficial drug agents. Though the Chinese public has been venting its anger over the scandal, the government as usual is calm and quite.