Japan halts vaccines after deaths of 4 children
AP - Monday, March 7
TOKYO – Japan has temporarily stopped using vaccines from U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc. and Sanofi-Aventis SA of France while it investigates the deaths of four children who were inoculated.
The government decided to halt the vaccines against pneumonia and some types of meningitis on Saturday. A health ministry official says the government is hearing from experts at a meeting Tuesday.
The ministry says the children ranged from under 6 months to 2 years old and died shortly after they got the vaccines.
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