ANTI-CORRUPTION advocates on Wednesday said a 10-year-old girl who died six months after being inoculated with Dengvaxia may have been the first fatality of the dengue vaccine.

Dante Jimenez, chairman of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), said his group is gathering cases of children who died or fell ill after getting the anti-dengue vaccine developed by French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur.

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