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...first deaths in people who received the H1N1 vaccine. The Ministry of Health announced that the two people, including a teacher from Hunan province, died hours after receiving their inoculations. Since September, when the ministry began its H1N1 immunization program, 12 million Chinese have received the pandemic flu shot...
...apparent heart attack while playing basketball, and a ministry spokesperson told the China Daily newspaper that the death was a "coincidental medical incident" and not related to the vaccine. No details on the second victim have been released thus far. (See pictures: "Soccer in the Time of Swine Flu...
Taking an aggressive approach to the pandemic flu, the Chinese government in June asked 11 biotech companies to develop a pandemic H1N1 vaccine. Beijing-based Sinovac succeeded in developing the world's first approved swine flu shot. The company raced to conduct clinical trials and was the first to report that a single dose of vaccine, instead of the two doses that most flu experts believed would be necessary, was sufficient to protect against 2009 H1N1. In early September, China became the first country to begin swine flu inoculations...
...says experts have "basically ruled out the possibility" that the heart attack victim's death was the result of an allergic reaction to the flu vaccine...
...ministry has said more than 13 million Chinese have received the swine flu vaccine so far. The statement says the vaccines are generally safe and vaccinations will continue...