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Moderna vaccinations halted in Japan’s Okinawa after ‘black substances’ found in vial, days after other batch of jab was suspended
RT ^ | 29 Aug, 2021 08:33 | Staff

Posted on 08/30/2021 6:50:00 AM PDT by Red Badger

Okinawa prefecture has halted Moderna vaccinations after unknown materials were found in a vial of the drug. The move comes after Japan pulled 1.6 million Moderna doses from a different batch over contamination concerns. Black substances were discovered in syringes and a vial, while unidentified pink substances were spotted in a different syringe with a Moderna vaccine dose, according to Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK.

Okinawa’s government said in a statement on Sunday that it was suspending the use of Moderna vaccines after “foreign substances were spotted in some of them.”

Takeda Pharmaceutical, Japan’s domestic distributor of the Moderna shot, is expected to probe whether the suspected contamination occurred during production and will consult with the health ministry on the matter, NHK reported.

The discovery comes just three days after Japan suspended the use of more than 1.6 million Moderna doses that had been distributed to 863 vaccination centers around the country. The doses were temporarily pulled from circulation as a precautionary measure after foreign material was discovered in some vials. Some of the doses were reportedly contaminated with metal particles. The newly discovered contaminated doses in Okinawa are from different vaccine lots.

While the issue is still being investigated, Japan’s Health Ministry revealed on Saturday that two people who had received their second Moderna doses from the vaccine lots withdrawn earlier this week had died. The ministry said it was investigating what killed the two victims, both men in their 30s, and that it was currently unknown if the vaccine played a role.

The vials from the pulled batches, which were manufactured by a Moderna contractor in Europe, are currently undergoing laboratory analysis. The results will be available early next week, Moderna and Takeda said in a joint statement released on Saturday.

On Friday, Taro Kono, the minister in charge of Japan’s immunization campaign, disclosed that more than 500,000 vaccinations had already been carried out using the doses from the vaccine lots in question. So far, there doesn’t appear to be any “serious safety issues” identified, Kono said.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has launched its own probe to determine if the EU’s Moderna supply suffers from similar contamination problems.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; History; Science
KEYWORDS: japan

1 posted on 08/30/2021 6:50:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Black substances were discovered in syringes

Why is it always black …

2 posted on 08/30/2021 6:56:19 AM PDT by 11th_VA (Stolen elections have consequences.)
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To: Red Badger

3 posted on 08/30/2021 6:58:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?”)
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To: Red Badger

what is the big deal.

CDC has the patents.

FauXi is owed the royalties.

Xi owns the USA through Xiden.

GateXi and SoroXi invested very heavily for this genocide.

so don’t look. don’t talk. don’t investigate.
just take the DNAoperating System MANDATED monthly.


4 posted on 08/30/2021 6:58:51 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: 11th_VA

5 posted on 08/30/2021 7:02:38 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: Red Badger

Amazing that some countries are looking at this crap and not just Jabbing everyone


6 posted on 08/30/2021 7:03:55 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

7 posted on 08/30/2021 7:14:34 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: Red Badger

Manufacturing quality issue. They *should* pull all doses from those production runs.


8 posted on 08/30/2021 7:19:04 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: Red Badger
two people who had received their second Moderna doses from the vaccine lots withdrawn earlier this week had died.

But were they RARE deaths?

9 posted on 08/30/2021 7:24:48 AM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

I want two hours and 4 minutes of my life back after watching that.


10 posted on 08/30/2021 7:38:37 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: cmj328

All vax deaths are rare, and all other deaths are Covid.


11 posted on 08/30/2021 7:39:29 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

It’s intentional. I’ve had several post-vax land in my ICU with complications (correlated with vax)

And 1/3 of patients admitted for Covid are vaxxed.

You probably won’t hear that on the news though. https://t.co/wXtysgjNai— Dr Mollie James (@molsjames) August 30, 2021


12 posted on 08/30/2021 7:40:41 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

And you also won’t hear that those dying from Covid have underlying issues. Like D&D. Diabetes and Dialysis.


13 posted on 08/30/2021 7:53:14 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Red Badger

FWIW, I think this story is likely crap.

If graphene oxide is being used as an adjuvant, or anything else, you wouldn’t be able to detect it visually.

And if there was something visually detectable, even if it made it out of Spain, the country of manufacture in this case,, the Japanese would never have accepted it for use.


14 posted on 08/30/2021 7:59:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: for-q-clinton

Yep, ignore the average of four comorbidities when it’s covid, but blame comorbidities when it’s the covid vaccine.


15 posted on 08/30/2021 8:03:17 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: ThunderSleeps

They should pull all, period.

Must be manufactured in someone’s mama’s basement.


16 posted on 08/30/2021 9:57:42 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Red Badger

black substances matter...


17 posted on 08/30/2021 10:04:49 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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