KOCHI: A woman who lost her infant on account of pentavalent vaccine being administered, approached the Kerala High Court on Friday against the use of the five-in-one vaccine.The petitioner, A N Shajila of Thiruvananthapuram, sought a directive to ban the vaccine in Kerala. She said that she had given birth to a girl child on October 18 last year. As per the compulsory vaccination policy, she gave her child the mandatory pentavalent vaccine within 57 days of birth.However, the child caught fever soon after and died the following day. The petitioner submitted that the post-mortem examination on the child’s body had revealed hypersensitivity reaction as the cause of the death. “I realised with shock that my child had been a victim of a clinical trial of the newly introduced vaccine,” the petitioner submitted.She also sought a directive to the authorities to constitute an expert committee to study the side effects of the vaccine.
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