[ANALYSIS] Dengvaxia scare: How viral rumors caused outbreaks

Fake news can kill, and the Dengvaxia scare is a perfect example of it.

The Dengvaxia vaccine was a promising solution to the scourge of dengue, a mosquito-borne disease to which hundreds of thousands of Filipinos fall victim each year.

But in November 2017 Dengvaxia’s developer (Sanofi Pasteur)  revealed that ...