Taiwan Compensates Family of Girl Who Died Days After Getting Second Dose of Pfizer’s COVID Shot
The Ministry of Health and Welfare of Taiwan has agreed to pay $114,829 under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) to the family of a young girl in Taoyuan, Taiwan, who died of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) within days of receiving the second dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty COVID-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) shot. […]
Baby in Nepal Dies After Getting Six Vaccines
A six-week-old baby in Nepal died after receiving six vaccines. The child, Bunu Dewan, reportedly received the BCG, DPT, fIPV and PCV vaccines at a community health center in the town of Simaltar. Bunu’s condition is reported to have deteriorated following the vaccination and the child was subsequently taken to Neuro Hospital in Biratnagar.1 2 […]
Injecting TB Vaccines Into the Veins vs Reducing Poverty
The journal Nature recently reported that tuberculosis (TB) vaccine developers discovered TB vaccine is much more effective if it is injected directly into the veins of monkeys rather than into the skin. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) found that administering BCG—the […]
