An 11-year old boy in Caloocan City, Aejay Bautista, died after a five-day bout with dengue hemorrhagic fever, while his sister, Ashley, is seriously ill with the same sickness.
According to the Public Attorney’s Office, these two cases have an apparently common thread: the Dengvaxia anti-dengue vaccine administered to school children as part of the national government’s mass vaccination drive.
Chief Public Attorney Atty. Percida Acosta pointed out that the autopsy report indicated that the boy died of dengue hemorrhagic fever.
“So, you were vaccinated with Dengvaxia to protect you from the ill effect of dengue. But this boy died of dengue. What went into his body? Dengvaxia.”
Aejay is the 11th fatality subjected to forensic examination by PAO in relation to the spate of dengue deaths among children as part of the ongoing inquiry into the controversy surrounding the mass vaccination campaign using the drug maker Sanofi’s vaccine.
The PAO intends to file a formal complaint next month, but is finding it difficult to collate documentation from relevant records of the Department of Health, which procured the vaccine for the program.
News5 has contacted DOH but has not been favored with a response.
