A RANKING official of the Public Attorney's Office (PAO) and the Volunteers against Crime and Corruption (VACC) are against a plan of Department of Health (DoH) Secretary Teodoro Herbosa to introduce a new dengue vaccine, saying it was 'no different from the killer Dengvaxia vaccine.'

In separate interviews, PAO Deputy Chief Erwin Erfe and VACC President Arsenio Evangelista said they could not imagine why the DoH was now promoting the Qdenga vaccine from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. instead of aggressively implementing its anti-mosquito campaign.