Philippines plans to sue Sanofi over dengue vaccine

Manila

THE Philippines intends to sue Sanofi after the authorities suspended the pharmaceutical giant's anti-dengue vaccine in response to the company warning that the drug could lead to severe infections in some cases, the health secretary said on Thursday.

Regulators froze the Philippines' world-first public dengue immunisation programme last week and suspended all sales of the vaccine on Monday after Sanofi said that Dengvaxia could worsen symptoms for vaccinated people who…