On Sunday, Mo Li, 27, was browsing Weibo when she saw the news: 250,000 defective vaccines had been administered to children in the province where she and her husband are raising their only child.
“It was like an explosion in my head,” says Mo, who lives in the eastern port city of Weihai, in Shandong province. “My only thought was, ‘please not my son, please not my son’,” she said, describing her thoughts while searching for her 17-month-old’s health records.
The serial number on his vaccination record matched that of the batch in question, made by one of China’s largest vaccine makers, Changsheng Biotechnology. Mo looked at her son, Congcong, asleep, and felt awful and then angry.
“I thought about all the people involved, from the vaccine company to the regulators. They cannot be called human. They are devils in hell,” she said.
Like Mo, thousands of parents across China have been scrambling for answers this week after revelations their children may have received faulty immunisations under a state-sponsored vaccine program, using products from Changsheng. The incident has sparked one of the country’s largest public outcries in years, one that officials and censors have struggled to contain.
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