Philip­pines DOJ preps crim­i­nal charges for Sanofi, health of­fi­cials in­volved in the Deng­vax­ia mess

The furor over Sanofi’s Deng­vax­ia con­tin­ues to roil the Philip­pines.

More than a year af­ter Sanofi con­ced­ed that the dengue vac­cine might raise the risk of a se­ri­ous re­ac­tion for the 800,000-plus chil­dren who were vac­ci­nat­ed in 2016, of­fi­cials in the De­part­ment of Jus­tice say they have grounds for in­dict­ing Sanofi ex­ecs along­side for­mer Health Sec­re­tary Janette Garin and 9 more health of­fi­cials in­volved in the vac­ci­na­tion pro­gram on crim­i­nal charges of reck­less im­pru­dence re­sult­ing to homi­cide.

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