A 64-year-old medical secretary has been living since 1994 with muscle pain and general fatigue. His symptoms are said to be linked to his vaccination againstHepatitis B, to which she was subjected that year with three callbacks.
Although considered an obligation of the Public Health Code, this vaccinationhaving caused physical disorders gives rise to the right to compensation by the State. This is what the administrative court of appeal of Nantes has just decided. The court orders the state to pay more than 190,000 euros to the victim. This sum “definitively charged to the National Office for Compensation for Medical Accidents, Iatrogenic Affections and Nosocomial Infections (Oniam) for the benefit of Mrs. L. (…) [est] fixed at 190,751.19 euros “, according to the decision rendered Friday, December 22 and taken up by AFP. Oniam will also have to pay 1,500 euros in legal costs.
Eleven compulsory vaccines for children from January 1
This decision should give food to grind to the French wary of vaccination. 13% of French people would not trustvaccine against hepatitis B, according to the 2016 barometer of the Agence Santé Publique France.
It is in this climate of mistrust of vaccination that eleven vaccines will become mandatory for children born after January 1, 2018, including those with hepatitis B. If so far diphtheria, tetanus and polio were mandatory, the other eight (whooping cough, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae B bacteria (responsible for meningitis), pneumococcus, meningococcus C) were worth a medical recommendation.
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