Sinovac vaccine suspended in China after death

8 December 2008

Sinovac Biotech, a China-based biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the R&D, manufacture and commercialization of vaccines, says that the Health Services Bureau of the Fengtai District in the City of Beijing has suspended the use of 83 doses of the firm's inactivated hepatitis A vaccine Healive, following a report of the death of a minor in the Fengtai District, which followed the administration of the vaccine two days earlier.

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