China Daily/Asia News Network
05/27/2010
A Chinese biological company has issued a recall of a batch of its human rabies vaccine over concerns for consumer safety, the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) announced.
The vaccine, which was made and released by the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products in Central China’s Hubei province under batch number 200905007-3, involved 10,902 doses, of which 8,376 had been used by Monday, the administration said in an online statement on Tuesday.
To date, drug authorities have received no reports of adverse sideeffects associated with the substandard vaccine, the statement said.
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The vaccine was found to contain an excessive amount of bacteria endotoxin, which can cause fever.
Other factors, such as whether and how this would impact its effectivenes, as well as when and where it was released and used, were not mentioned.
Health professionals recommend that people who have been bitten by dogs or other animals receive the human rabies vaccine as soon as possible, because the disease is nearly 100 percent fatal for those infected.