By Yoichi Shimatsu
Exclusive To Rense
8-1-18
In a predominantly one-child per couple society, Chinese parents and grandparents have been alarmed and distressed since mid-July by a malpracticde scandal involving falsification of data on rabies vaccines, following a string of alarming online reports of toxic vaccines. The culprit is privately owned Changsheng Life Sciences based in Changchun in Northeast China, owned by a mysterious female tycoon. Just last summer, the same producer was raided by local police and fined 3.4 million yuan ($500,000) for tainted DPT vaccine (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) dosed to children in Shantung Province.
The public outcry over a WeChat post that disclosed the defective vaccine scandal (and then was quickly removed) interrupted President Xi Jinping’s visit to Rwanda’s genocide memorial, prompting him to make a hot call to Beijing with a promise action to address the homegrown killing fields. His gesture led to local police arresting 15 Changsheng executives and managers, including the board chairwoman Junfang Gao (net worth $1 billion). Then came the official claim that no affected children were exposed to the rabies vaccine before its recall.
The revelation of the Changsheng vaccine scandal was a scoop by the online media, originating with an online WeChat post. Insrtead of allaying public fears with a transparent investigation and regular press conferences, Beijing’s predictable evasion tactic was to bring down the Great Firewall of official censorship banning press coverage and silencing the online media.
One reason for the cover-up is Changsheng’s distribution of questionable low-cost vaccines for WHO and UNICEF inoculation campaigsn in Africa, the host continent for the presidential tour to be capped with a China-Africa forum in Beijing this September. The other source of official discomfort is the role of two U.S. foundations in the growth of China’s vaccine industry: the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the latter being widely accused of deploying vaccines as a biological weapon to sterilize girls throughout the developing regions for the purpose of race-based population reduction….. Read More
