At least 15 children have died in South Sudan after health workers used the same syringe to vaccinate them against measles without sterilising it, Health Minister Riek Gai Kok has said.
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Another 32 have recovered after falling ill with symptoms including fever, vomiting and diarrhoea, he added. The team that vaccinated the children “in this tragic event were neither qualified nor trained for the immunisation campaign”, Reuters news agency quoted Dr Kok as saying at a press conference.
A committee of specialists found the children had died from severe sepsis toxicity as a result of the vaccine’s contamination, caused by repeated use of an unsterilised syringe.
Source: The Daily Times News
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