While the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, confirms that from 2018, children must be vaccinated against 11 diseases before the age of two, nearly a hundred families are preparing to sue four pharmaceutical laboratories. They are convinced that there is a link between vaccination and autism and fully intend to “seek compensation for damage caused by pediatric vaccination”. According to The Parisian, this group action scheduled for September 2017 will target the Sanofi, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline laboratories.
At the head of this process, a “fierce activist”
Martine Ferguson-André, member of the health commission of Europe Ecology-the Greens (EELV) and former director general of the association Autism Vaccination is at the origin of this action. This woman, described by Le Parisien as a “fierce activist”, claims that her son became autistic after being vaccinated five times when he was ten months old. She points to thiomersal, a preservative containing mercury, which would have been detected in the child’s blood, as the main culprit. As a precaution, it was removed from the vaccine list in 2000 by the health authorities. Le Parisien specifies, however, that “at the time, the studies carried out had not made it possible to conclude that there was a potential risk”.
Asked by franceinfo, Martine Ferguson-André affirms: “We demand justice and reparation for our children injured by their vaccine, made autistic by their vaccine, and naturally this action also aims at prevention to restore the confidence which is taking a sacred blow in France “.
However, in the five independent American studies carried out since 1998, none shows any link between vaccination and autism.
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