Botched measles vaccination campaign kills 15 kids
Fifteen South Sudanese children died in what’s being called a “botched measles vaccination campaign” in one of the country’s remote villages.
The United Nations said the children, all under the age of 5, died of “severe sepsis and toxicity” from contaminated vaccine.
The same syringe was used on multiple people for four days straight and the vaccines were not refrigerated as they should have been.
The tragedy has aid workers from Alaska urging people to take a
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