China's stifling laws depriving its people of common vaccines
They also pose a challenge to global pharmaceutical firms in a huge potential market
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STIFLING regulations are preventing China's 1.4 billion people from accessing several common vaccines available in much of the rest of the world, raising public health risks and posing a challenge to global pharmaceutical companies in a huge potential market.
Sam Ding, a tech professional in southern China, says he crossed the border to Hong Kong twice to get his one-year-old daughter a key vaccine for potentially fatal conditions - pneumonia, blood infections and meningitis. Why Hong Kong? The pneumococcal vaccine from Pfizer Inc that he was looking for wasn't available on the mainland.
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