Duo handed prison terms over illegal vaccine trade

A woman and her daughter were handed prison terms on Tuesday after being convicted of selling vaccines without a license in Shandong province, according to a local court.

Pang Hongwei was sentenced to 15 years in prison for illegally purchasing vaccines - including rabies vaccines, which she stored in warehouses in Jinan and Liaocheng - and then selling them to clients in the province and other parts of the country between June 2013 and April 2015, according to the Jinan Intermediate People's Court.

Pang improperly stored the vaccines she bought, and sold vaccines with a total sales value of nearly 75 million yuan ($11 million), the court said.