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Infant death in Central 皇冠体育app not vaccine-related

(Xinhua) Updated: 2013-12-26 10:16

WUHAN - Doctors have ruled out vaccination as the cause of the death of a one-month-old infant in Central 皇冠体育app's province, local authorities said on Wednesday.

The baby died on Dec 20 in Ezhou city, one day after receiving a hepatitis B vaccination manufactured by Tiantan Biological Products Co Ltd, a major supplier of free hepatitis B vaccine.

Her parents found her with a nosebleed early in the morning, and she died at 8 am?after emergency treatment.

According to the diagnosis, the baby died of pnmorrhagia which can be caused by lack of Vitamin K, pulmonary infection and pulmonary vascular malformation.

There have been no effects on other infants vaccinated from the same batch.

To date, eight infants have died following hepatitis B vaccination since November, including four in South 皇冠体育app's Guangdong province, two in Central 皇冠体育app's Hunan province and two in Sichuan province, according to Chinese health authorities.

The one in Sichuan province involves a vaccine produced by Beijing Tiantan Biological Products Co Ltd.

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