A health ministry panel has concluded there is no need to stop administering the vaccination for Japanese encephalitis despite the deaths this year of two children who received the drug.
The panel reached its conclusion Wednesday after studying the circumstances of the two deaths.
A child under 9 years old died in July, seven days after getting a shot of the vaccination, and a 10-year-old boy in Gifu Prefecture died in October immediately after he was administered the drug.
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