| Thalidomide Medication scandal [Victim] About 1000 persons |
Thalidomide was sold as a hypnotic or digestive medicine from the company in Germany in 1957, and was sold as Japan or "a medicine which feels easy also about a pregnant woman or a child and can be drunk."However, when a pregnant woman took, malformation was produced to the embryo and it became a sales stop and recovery in Germany.It is after having become a sales stop in Japan passes as long as after-warning ten months, and damage was expanded. |
| Scandal over HIV-tainted blood products [Victim] About 1400 or more persons |
Since HIV which causes AIDS into the unheated blood product currently used as medical treatment of a hemophilia was mixing in the 1980s, many infection was reported by every corner of the earth.While the drug company got to know medicinal danger, sale was continued, and damage expanded the country by not having taken the effective measures against the prevention from HIV infection.It is supposed in Japan that at least 500 persons died. |
| Drug-induced hepatitis [Victim] About 100 million people |
It is the incident which produced the hepatitis patient by taking fibrinogen blood product which hepatitis C virus was mixed,manufacture company was heavy responsible that about 10,000 people were infected with hepatitis in this incident. |
| Retinopathy by chloroquine [Victim] 1000 or more persons |
It was one of antimalarial agents sold as a medicine for a chronic nephritis in Japan. When chloroquine was prescribed for the patient over the long period of time, the chloroquine retinopathy to which a view becomes narrow occurred.There is no cure, and even if taking medicine is stopped, visual impairment advances.Since the Ministry of Health and Welfare of those days did not take suitable correspondence of information disclosure, instruction to a drug company, etc. Damage was expanded even after there was warning in the United States. |
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| ⑤If you feel sick ofter taking madicine, inform that to a medical worker.
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