Health office traces Dengvaxia use in Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY — The City Health Office is reviewing the list of patients of pediatricians in private practice to determine whether they were injected with the Dengvaxia vaccines.

Dr. Rodelin Agbulos, City Health Officer, on Monday said some of the pediatricians may have possibly used Dengvaxia even though there was no vaccination conducted in this city.

“We are coordinating with the pediatricians to review the list so that we could trace their whereabouts if and when there were children who were given Dengvaxia,” he said.

He said children injected with Dengvaxia will be closely monitored.

Dengvaxia, manufacture by French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, has been granted marketing authorization in 2015 by Mexico making it the first vaccine to be licensed in the world for the prevention of dengue.

The DOH reported that 733,713 children from three regions in Luzon have been vaccinated with Dengvaxia under the agency’s school-based immunization program launched in 2016.

But the DOH suspended the dengue vaccination program after it was reported that Dengvaxia has dangerous side effect. (PNA)

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