Babies Die in India After Getting “5-in-1” Vaccine
"Two babies, aged six and eight weeks, died on Mar. 7, 2019 within 24 hours of receiving a “5-in-1” pentavalent vaccination at a primary health care center in Hyderabad, India.
Another 32 children who received the vaccine came down with fever and at least four of them were reported to be in serious condition.
The pentavalent “5-in-1” vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP), hepatitis B (hepB) and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) was introduced into India’s routine vaccination schedule for children during 2014-2015. The vaccine, which comes in vials of 10 doses each, is scheduled to be given to children three separate times—at six weeks, 10 weeks and 14 weeks of age."
Two Infants and a Toddler in India Die Shortly After Vaccinations
"Three children ranging from ages two months to three and a half years recently died in India following vaccinations. The first child, two-month-old Sharika Sharma, died on June 10, 2018, the morning after she was administered the second round of vaccinations under the Indian government routine vaccination program at the Community Health Center.
India’s vaccine schedule calls for infants to be given a first round of oral polio vaccine (OPV) and a pentavalent vaccine consisting of the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus), HepB (hepatitis B) and HiB (Haemophilus influenzae type B) vaccines at six weeks and a second round of the same vaccines at 10 weeks—a total of 12 vaccines during one month"
Two Infants in India Die Following Pentavalent Vaccination
The mother of one of the babies who died said her baby began crying inconsolably shortly after receiving the vaccine. She rushed the child back to the clinic and was told the crying was a normal reaction to the pain of the shot, and not to worry. Soon after, the infant fell into an exhausted sleep from which he never awoke. He died the next day. The new parent’s nightmare only got worse when she found out that another six-week old boy had died the day before hers, after being given the same vaccine.2
Indian Girls Die Following Vaccinations
In the second recent vaccine-related death reported in India, one-month old Aradhika Tripathi died within two hours of being given seven vaccines on Sept. 13, 2017, including doses of the live oral polio vaccine (OPV), inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and the pentavalent for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine,6 at Veerangana Avanti Bai Mahila Chikitsalaya Hospital in Uttar Pradesh, India.7