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Litigants in Dengvaxia homicide raps file for inhibition of QC judge

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Parents of children whose deaths were linked to the Dengvaxia vaccine have asked a Quezon City judge to stay away from the litigation of the Dengvaxia-related cases filed against 38 respondents.

Ian Colite and Analyn Ebona filed an urgent motion for inhibition and to hold in abeyance the proceedings of the eight counts of imprudence resulting in homicide charges with Branch 13 Judge Lily Ann Padaen, stressing that they wanted another judge to handle the cases for a fair trial.

Eight Quezon City prosecutors—City Prosecutor Vimar Barcellano; Deputy City Prosecutor Irene Resurreccion-Medrano; Senior Assistant City Prosecutors Maria Raiis Geronimo and Charisma Reyda Manauis, and Assistant City Prosecutors  Renato Abastillas Jr., Raphael Joseph Seares, Habeas Corpuz and Jerome Christopher Feria—agreed to the filing of the eight-page urgent motion. Rio N. Araja

Padaen, in a four-page order, directed the lawyers of all the accused—ex-health chief Janette Garin, ex-Philippine Children’s Medical Center executive director Julius Lecciones, and other active and former officials of the Department of Health, Food and Drug

Administration, and Research Institute for Tropical Medicine—to file their comments via electronic mail within three days from the receipt of the order.

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She cancelled the Feb. 23 presentation of the 13th witness, and also held in abeyance the resolution of the motion to tender excluded evidence by the city prosecutors.

Colite, a security guard from Cavite, and Ebona linked the death of their sons, Zandro and Marc Axl, respectively, to Dengvaxia vaccine.

The two boys were among the 830,000 students who received the vaccine between 2016 and 2017 under the P3.5-billion Department of Health’s mass vaccination against dengue infection.

On Nov. 29, 2017, Sanofi Pasteur Inc., the vaccine manufacturer, posted on its official website that “For those not previously infected by dengue virus, however, the analysis found that in the longer term, more cases of severe disease could occur following vaccination upon a subsequent dengue infection.”

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