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Chinese Report Surge in Leukemia Cases, Post-Vaccine Complications and Deaths

Published: April 22, 2025
People receive vaccine for COVID-19 in Ningbo, China's Zhejiang Province, on Aug. 10, 2021. (Image: via Getty Images)

A large amount of posts and videos coming out of mainland China in recent weeks suggest that many people throughout the country are still experiencing complications from the novel coronavirus or side-effects from the mass-vaccinations ordered by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 

Numerous Chinese report various suffering myriad symptoms following inoculation by China-produced vaccines, as well as a concerning rise in the frequency of deaths among relatives, acquaintances, and in their communities at large. 

Leukemia on the rise? 

Chinese social media users have reported an apparent rise in leukemia cases of late. 

In mid-April 15, Dr. Liao Junyao, a traditional Chinese medicine specialist in hematological oncology,  said in a video post that “many may have noticed that there seems to be more leukemia patients now.” 

Another blogger remarked: “At this rate, we won’t need to go to war—we’re wiping ourselves out.” Many replies in the comment section blamed the surge on COVID vaccinations.

According to the official website of the Chinese Red Cross Foundation, the country currently has 4 million leukemia patients, and that number is increasing by 30,000 to 40,000 cases annually. Shockingly, up to half of these new patients are children. More and more data suggest that in recent years, children have become a high-risk group for leukemia. Notably, official statistics from the CCP are widely viewed with skepticism.

There is an abundance of posts about child leukemia cases on Douyin, the mainland Chinese version of TikTok. An 11-year-old boy was suspected of having leukemia just after a fever. An 8-year-old boy has had a swollen face for years and undergone over 10 rounds of chemotherapy in three years. A roughly 3-year-old boy was diagnosed with leukemia and given just a 50 percent chance of recovery. 

Chinese suspect state-made COVID vaccines as deaths on the rise 

A resident of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province surnamed Wang recently told overseas media:

“Lately, a number of my coworkers have died. Some were young and just suddenly got sick. A lot of them got cancer or leukemia. Everyone says it’s because of the vaccine. The side effects are huge: heart problems, high blood sugar, all kinds of diseases.”

“During the pandemic, the person in charge of epidemic prevention was the first to die; he was just 50 years old. He had taken all three shots and was always eager to get vaccinated,” Mr. Wang said. 

He added that he had very reluctantly accepted one shot, and only then when he was threatened with losing his management job. “So I was forced to take it. The more shots, the worse the side effects are.”

Mr. Wang noted, as have many other Chinese since the official end of the pandemic in late 2022, that “when the lockdowns ended, funeral homes were packed. This past winter, they were crowded again, endless lines once more.” 

Many have expressed hopelessness, writing about exhausting their savings for treatment that may or may not save their lives. “If I hadn’t gotten vaccinated, this wouldn’t have happened! But who can I turn to?” one user posted. 

An internet user from Guangdong Province posted on social media to report that several friends and the poster’s brother had died from acute leukemia. 

“My brother had acute myeloid leukemia M1 and passed away. … From diagnosis to the end, just 1.5 months. This disease is terrifying and torturous.”

A Henan netizen wrote, “My daughter got  acute myelogenous leukemia. She passed away in six months.”

“I never paid attention to the hematology department before, but after I was diagnosed, I realized how quickly money disappears. So many people never leave that department. By my 10th day of hospitalization, I saw six people carried away.”

Netizens from Jiangsu, Yunnan, Hubei, Hunan, reported deaths from the disease:

“My husband had acute lymphoblastic leukemia—hospitalized for 25 days, then gone.”
“My husband passed 13 days after diagnosis.”
“My mother-in-law died just 4 days after acute leukemia symptoms started.”
“My son was diagnosed with M2 leukemia, and passed away three days into chemotherapy. Life is so fragile.”

A Shaanxi netizen: “After the Lunar New Year, my mother-in-law had headaches. Her white blood cell count was low. Bone marrow biopsy showed acute myeloid leukemia. She was hospitalized until April when the hospital told us to take her home. She was buried two days ago. From start to end, just two months.”

A Sichuan netizen: “My husband had always been healthy. One day he spat blood—checked into the hospital and was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia. From hospitalization to the end, just one month and six days, then he left me forever.”

In one video, a woman speaking with a Northeast Chinese accent described the scenes at and around funeral parlors, adding that many deaths — from heart attacks, strokes, and leukemia — could be attributed to post-vaccine complications.