More Than 20,000 Children Injected With Expired Vaccines in Chinese County, Protesting Parents Say

More Than 20,000 Children Injected With Expired Vaccines in Chinese County, Protesting Parents Say
Police seal off the area around the Jinhu County government building on Jan. 11, 2019. More than 20,000 children are reported to have been injected with expired vaccines in the county in Jiansu Province, China. Supplied
Nicole Hao
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Angered parents beat the top Chinese Communist Party official of Jinhu County in the southeastern province of Jiangsu upon discovering that local authorities failed to prevent expired vaccines from being used on their children.

Since Jan. 7, when the first reported case emerged that a child had been injected with an expired vaccine, parents say the number has swelled to more than 20,000 children younger than 14 years old who have been injected with expired vaccines. Hundreds of them fell ill, while others are disabled, they told the Chinese-language Epoch Times.

Nicole Hao
Nicole Hao
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Nicole Hao is a Washington-based reporter focused on China-related topics. Before joining the Epoch Media Group in July 2009, she worked as a global product manager for a railway business in Paris, France.
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