Via Nature News & Comment: Chinese vaccine scandal unlikely to dent childhood immunization rates. Excerpt:
Problems with two Chinese-made vaccines — one of which was distributed to clinics and possibly injected into hundreds of thousands of children — have led to arrests and made international headlines. But researchers who study vaccination in China don’t expect a major effect on the country’s high immunization rates.
Widespread support for immunization programmes combined with strict vaccine requirements for children starting school means that most parents will continue vaccinating their children, they say.
“I don’t think there’ll be an appreciable drop in vaccine coverage but it could impact when people get vaccines, and where the vaccines come from,” says Abram Wagner, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who has interviewed Chinese parents about their views on immunization.
