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Following the teenagers in Incheon, seniors who received free flu vaccines in Gochang and Daejeon, Jeollabuk-do, died one after another.
With growing anxiety about vaccination, health officials said the vaccines were not exposed to room temperature or produced white particles.
This is reporter Kim Hyung-rae.
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morning of the 19th, a 78-year-old woman who received a free flu vaccine was found dead at home yesterday morning at a clinic in Gochang-gun, Jeollabuk-do.
The health authorities explained that the flu vaccine that this woman got was not exposed to room temperature or white particles were detected as a product of Boryeong Biopharma.
The woman, who spoke to the women's chairman after vaccination, was treated for cerebral infarction and was known to suffer from high blood pressure, but no adverse reactions occurred immediately after vaccination.
The Gochang-gun Health Center said that it received a response from the same hospital calling all 99 residents who received the same vaccine.
[Police official: (Did you decide to do an autopsy?) I am going to do it, I am going to do it.
It was also
confirmed that a man in his 80s, who got a flu vaccine yesterday morning in Daejeon, died in five hours.
Five days ago in Incheon, the National Institute of Scientific Investigation, which is also conducting autopsies of high school students who died after vaccination against the flu, revealed the first opinion that "the relationship between vaccination and death seems small, but the cause of death is still unclear."
On the same day as the dead high school student, authorities said there were no adverse reactions from 32 people who received the same vaccine at the same hospital.
More than 9.5 million people have been vaccinated against the flu this year.