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Then earlier this month, 615,000 doses of a flu vaccine shipped by another company were also recalled after some of them were found to contain white particles, which the government described as a harmless protein. Almost 18,000 people had received doses before they were recalled.
None of those batches had reported serious damage, although dozens of people who received those doses reported fever or other minor complaints, which are common reactions to flu shots, authorities said. None of the nine people who died had received vaccines that had been recalled, they added.
After suspending the adolescent vaccination program for three weeks, it was resumed on October 13. Three days later, a 17-year-old boy in Incheon, west of Seoul, died after receiving his vaccine. On Tuesday, a 77-year-old woman was found dead at her home in Gochang, south of Seoul, after having been vaccinated the day before. On the same day, an 82-year-old man who had also been inoculated died in the central city of Daejeon.
Four of the five people who died Wednesday were between 53 and 89 years old. No information has been released about the other two people who died, one on Tuesday and one on Wednesday.
Nine of those who died, all of whom had received flu shots in the past, received vaccines supplied by several different local drug companies, authorities said.
“Since most of the people who got the flu shot with the same vaccines reported no major problems, we concluded that these vaccines do not contain toxic materials,” said Kim Joong-gon, professor of medicine at the National University. from Seoul, who led a team of researchers. . “We conclude that we can exclude the vaccine as a problem.”
In general, flu vaccines have a good safety record. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that the body of scientific evidence for decades “overwhelmingly” supports its safety.
