The Dengvaxia controversy in the Philippines: implications for vaccine confidence (2018)

Peer-Reviewed Study · Fatima K, Syed NI (peer-reviewed commentary, PMC) · 2018

Peer-reviewed account of the Dengvaxia fallout: roughly 800,000 children vaccinated, about 80,000 of them seronegative and at increased risk of severe dengue, with a measurable collapse in Philippine vaccine confidence afterward.

more than 800,000 children were vaccinated… about 80,000 seronegative children may be at increased risk

Peer-reviewed account of the Dengvaxia fallout: roughly 800,000 children vaccinated, about 80,000 of them seronegative and at increased risk of severe dengue, with a measurable collapse in Philippine vaccine confidence afterward. Quantifies the scale of the seronegative-vaccination problem that the Sanofi label change addressed.

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