The vultures smelled blood and swooped down on the prey. No, not on the dead woman. They had no use for her. Ah, but the living, they're useful! They're afraid of death and you can easily scare them into buying a vaccine. That is how the propaganda machine works each and every time to push forward the Big Pharma agenda.
I'm not a medical expert, nor do I pretend to be, but I've studied manipulation techniques enough to spot this type of propaganda operation.

This story happened in Romania, so nobody's heard of it anywhere else, but I'm sure the same technique is regularly employed in other parts of the world.
At the center of the story is a young local singer of some fame who recently died of Hep B. Even before she was laid to rest, the propaganda scare-mongering machine sprung into action. Various sites immediately published articles saying basically “you could be the next victim, get the vaccine now!” The warnings are directed at those born before 1995, when routine anti-Hep B vaccination of newborns was introduced.

Scare-mongering is the first layer of the operation. There's a second layer, however, which aims to pressure local authorities into relaxing price regulations and acquiescing to the vaccine manufacturers demands.

At issue is a 2009 law, setting drugs and vaccines prices as low as possible. You might be tempted to say it's a good thing for the population to have access to cheap drugs. Well, the propaganda machine doesn't see it that way. “International manufacturers have no interest in selling their drugs at a low price.” That explains why there's a shortage of the Twinrix on the local market.

In plain words, Big Pharma wants big money, you'd better give them what they want!

“The price is set by the Romanian state and the present government doesn't have the guts to change the law and save our lives”.
I've emphasized the words save our lives because that's how propaganda works, by making it personal.
You, the reader, are in imminent danger of dying from Hep-B, you need this vaccine ASAP, no matter what it costs.
You'd assume opinion makers to be on the government's side on this. We are, after all, a small not very prosperous country and should fight for cheap drugs. No, opinion makers side with Big Pharma, let them ask whatever price they ask, no matter how outrageous.

In the name of tragedy

It is not the first time such a thing happens in my country. Years ago, there was the case of a well-known actor that died after getting the flu. It was winter, but the population wasn't showing much interest in getting the flu-shots. The vultures seized the opportunity and emphasized the fact such a death could be prevented by a shot. True enough, thousands of people got vaccinated the next day. Does it even matter that months later it was established the actor had died of a nosocomial infection and not the flu?

Good job!

Out of curiosity I googled this Twinrix vaccine. Turns out it is produced by GlaxoSmithKline, whose sales from new Vaccine and Pharmaceutical products were up 52% in 2016. Not bad!

I'm truly sorry, the article that made me write this is not available in English, but I'll still include a link to the Romanian version, as I've noticed there quite a few Romanians on Steemit interested in the subject of vaccines.
https://www.dcnews.ro/inmormantare-denisa-manelista-vaccin-hepatita-b-ce-nu-a-cautat-nimeni-pe-google-despre-denisa-raducu-va-va-ingrozi_551956.html