A Passage to Kandahar

An Afghan health worker (left) administers the polio vaccine to a child, as other members of the vaccination team wearing burqas look on, in Arghandab District of Kandahar province. Photo: AFP/Jawed Tanveer.

What They Didn’t Teach You at School

Police are investigating three pharmaceutical companies that might have been involved in sales of expired or improperly stored vaccines Police in eastern China have arrested 37 people for illegal sales of vaccines in a widening scandal that again has raised questions about product safety in China and a possible government cover-up. [Read more].

• Stuart Leavenworth, China’s vaccine scandal widens as 37 arrested over illegal sales, The Guardian, March 23, 2016

Newly born babies receive vaccines at a hospital in 阿克苏 (Ākèsù), China. Police have arrested 37 people for sales of vaccines that might have expired. Photo: Stringer/China/Reuters.