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  • On this episode of China Uncensored,

  • can you trust vaccines?

  • Well, if youre in China, maybe not.

  • Hi, welcome to China Uncensored, I'm your host Chris Chappell.

  • Vaccines: a life saving technological breakthrough?

  • Or poison injected into your children?

  • If you'd like save time,

  • you can go ahead and begin

  • the anti-vaxxer flame war in the comment section below.

  • Still here? Good.

  • Let's talk about a vaccine scandal!

  • Chinese pharmacist Pang Hongwei had been illegally trading in vaccines.

  • But authorities were quick to act and she was sentenced to three years in prison,

  • later reduced to five years probation.

  • That was in 2009.

  • But then in 2011,

  • instead of stopping her illegal vaccine trade,

  • she somehow began working with local officials in 24 provinces,

  • for five years, creating one of the biggest health scandals in Chinese history.

  • I wonder if that violates the terms of her probation.

  • As of now, this $90 million dollar scandal has exposed

  • 29 pharmaceutical firms, 16 health departments and 357 officials.

  • Here's how it worked:

  • According to China's FDA,

  • Pang was buying cheap vaccines

  • from drug companies that were either expired or close to their expiration date.

  • Then she sold them across China.

  • And local officials cooperatedfor a profit.

  • See, local governments don’t get money from the central government,

  • so they're often forced to come up with somecreative ways

  • to make money, like:

  • land seizures, fines for violations of the one (and now two) child policy, and selling vaccines.

  • Provincial disease control centers mark up the vaccines

  • and then force hospitals to buy them.

  • And while some vaccines for diseases like polio and tuberculosis

  • are considered mandatory for everyone and are free

  • others, like for chickenpox or meningitis, Chinese citizens have to buy themselves.

  • Now if you think this whole local government-backed monopoly

  • on expired or nearly expired vaccines could go on forever,

  • well, it didn't.

  • It only went on for five years.

  • That’s when police stumbled upon Pang's stash of vaccines

  • in an unrefrigerated storeroom in an abandoned factory.

  • Apparently vaccines are supposed to be refrigerated.

  • So for five years, people across China were paying for vaccines

  • that were expired and weren't stored properly.

  • Now while that may sound bad,

  • what’s even worse is that officials covered up the scandal for an entire year.

  • In fact, the only reason it came to light

  • is that authorities asked suppliers in March to step forward

  • so they could trace potential victims.

  • In other words, they were afraid the problem might become too big to cover up,

  • so they decided to 'fess up.

  • Just like they did with SARS.

  • So you might be asking yourself

  • "Won't someone please think of the children."

  • Well

  • "I felt very scared and worried about my child after I heard this news."

  • So is there a risk of getting poisoned from expired vaccines?

  • According to the World Health Organization

  • "This is not the case.

  • Vaccines that are improperly handled can lose their potency

  • and they may not protect the child against the disease the vaccine was intended to prevent."

  • So you can see why authorities covered it up for a year.

  • There was nothing to worry about!

  • Expired vaccines just lose their potency.

  • They don’t kill you.

  • Unless you die from the disease theyre supposed to protect you against

  • because you never got a real vaccination.

  • As for Pang, she’s been detained,

  • but police haven't announced any specific charges,

  • because, you know, not telling people things has worked out so great in the past.

  • But some say that if courts feel they've endangered lives,

  • they could face the death sentence.

  • The Chinese people already don’t have much faith in Chinese goods,

  • from all the fake medicine, fake food, toxic milk, or that time in 2013

  • when a couple of infants died following a Hepatitis B vaccination

  • but the Chinese FDA said it was unrelated

  • but who really believes what the Chinese government says anyway?

  • And this five-year-long-scandal-plus-one-year-cover-up has not helped.

  • Doctors in China are already reporting a big drop-off in vaccinations across the country.

  • So what do you think about vaccines?

  • What’s that, Shelley?

  • Youre saying it’s a bad idea to ask viewers to comment on that?

  • Well, in that case, what do you... love most about puppy dogs?

  • Leave your comments below. Once again, I'm Chris Chappell. See you next time.

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