SOUTH SUDAN: 15 children die after they’re administered contaminated vaccine

No less than 15 helpless kids have reportedly lost their lives in South Sudan following a botched vaccine campaign in the war ravaged country.

According to feelers, people as young as 12 years old were administering the vaccines, to the dismay of some according to government officials on Friday.

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The United Nations revealed that the children died of “severe sepsis/toxicity” from the contaminated vaccine, and the health ministry blamed the deaths on human error.

One syringe was used for all the children during the four-day campaign, and the vaccine was stored without refrigeration the entire time.

Measles is yet another challenge facing the desperately poor East African country that already has been devastated by more than three years of civil war and a recently declared famine, as well as a cholera outbreak.

 

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