According to WHO Press release, a fake Yellow fever vacine "AMARIL" is currently in circulation in South East Asia. The information was made known to the World Health Organization through a Senegalese Institute.
11 February 2016
Medical Product
Alert N°
2
/2016
"Falsified
AMARIL
yellow fever vaccines circulating in South East Asia
This Medical Product Alert relates to the
confirmed
circulation of
falsified versions
of
“AMARIL stabilised
vaccine”
in South East Asia.
This vaccine is used to immunise against yellow fever and is
a
WHO prequalified product.
Yellow fever
vaccine is
on the WHO list of Essential Medicines.
On the 9
th
of February 2016, the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, Senegal, informed WHO that they had identified
a
falsified version of their
“AMARIL stabilised vaccine”
circulating in Bangladesh" Read the Press Release by clicking here
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