Namibia: Police are sitting on vaccine death cases and won’t investigate
‘Over the past decade, at least 21 Namibian children have died after receiving vaccines – five of the deaths occurred this year – but Namibian authorities are not fully investigating these cases or releasing any information related to them.
Inquests submitted to the police for at least 13 cases of vaccine deaths since 2007 have not been investigated, and health ministry officials are refusing to talk to the press.
When the deaths began increasing, officials first tried to explain them away as cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), but the mothers who lost their children told a different story – the symptoms had no resemblance to those of SIDS.’
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