Rabies vaccine contamination.

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China recalls more than 320,000 doses of flawed rabies vaccine: official

 

 

 

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2009-02-11 22:35:21

 

 

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BEIJING,

Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- More than 320,000 doses of rabies vaccine found to

contain a banned ingredient have been recovered in China after

regulators ordered a recall, an official said Wednesday. The vaccines contain nucleic acid. Among 360,200 doses of the flawed

vaccines for human use, 323,200 had been recovered by Monday afternoon

by the manufacturer, Dalian Jingang-Andi Bio-products Co. Ltd. in

northeast China's Liaoning Province, said Yan Jiangying, spokeswoman

for the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA). She said she believed the rest of the vaccines, where not used, had been held for recall. There has been no report of vaccine-related illness so far. The SFDA asked the province's drug

administration department to make sure all products were recovered, Yan

said at a press conference. The agency ordered the company to

recall all rabies vaccine it produced in 2008, totaling 3.389 million

does, soon after the department received a report from the National

Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products

(NICPBP) in early January. The institute found in a test that

360,200 doses of the company's vaccines contained nucleic acid, which

was not supposed to be added until its safety had been proven. Nucleic acid acts as an adjuvant,

or a substance used to enhance the effectiveness of anti-viral drugs.

However, China hasn't yet approved it for use in rabies vaccine, said

Dong Guanmu, a researcher at the NICPBP. Dong said although animal tests

showed the acid did enhance the effectiveness of the vaccine, it had to

undergo clinical trials before it could be used on humans. The company said on its website

that it now supplies 20 percent of the rabies vaccine in China's

market. The company could not be reached immediately for further

information on the recall because the telephone number it published

online was no longer in use. Humans are intrinsically healthy and tend to remain so if they are given nutritious, non-GMO foods, fresh air, and clean water. We have been blessed with God-given protective barriers against infectious diseases, including our skin and immune system. Knowing that these facts are true for all members of the human species, how did we come to embrace the idea that injecting solutions of chemically-treated, inactivated viruses, parts of bacteria, traces of animal tissue and heavy metals, such as mercury and aluminum, was a reasonable strategy for keeping human beings—babies, children and adults—healthy? - Dr Sherri Tenpenny, DO.

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