Aquino on Dengvaxia: I would've stopped purchase had Sanofi bared risk to first-time dengue patients

FORMER president Benigno Aquino 3rd said that he would have ordered the suspension of the dengue vaccination program had French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur presented to him its study about the risk its anti-dengue vaccine posed to recipients who have not been infected with the mosquito-borne illness.

"So kumbaga, ang pangako noong Sanofi, ginawa nila 'yung apat para sigurado na nga na wala na 'tong risk...na mas malalang impeksyon 'pag nagkaroon ng panibago ngang impeksyon. Ngayon po, nung November 2017, bigla na lang iba na yata sinasabi...dadagdagan bigla na kung hindi ka pa na-impeksyon dati e pwedeng lumala itong impeksyon na susunod," Aquino told the House of Representatives on Monday as to whether he would have suspended the immunization program had Sanofi briefed him about its November 2017 findings.