The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning adults over 60 not to get the chikungunya vaccine after two patients died.
What is chikungunya virus? It is a mosquito-borne virus much like Zika and dengue, more common in tropical areas.
The FDA reports that it found at least “17 serious adverse events, including two that resulted in death, in individuals 62 through 89 years of age” from the vaccine brandnamed IXCHIQ.
The vaccine contains the chikungunya virus so the people who had the vaccine died from the symptoms of the very virus they were trying NOT to get.
The vaccine was clinically trialed on 3,500 people over the age of 18 but if participants reacted this poorly, it wasn’t disclosed to the public.
