Jacqueline Bergel, the anti-vaccine lawyer, asks the Minister of Health that mandatory vaccines containing aluminum be withdrawn from the market.
They announced it, and they did. Anti-vaccines go on the offensive against aluminum adjuvants. On February 8, the Council of State had left the Ministry of Health 6 months, i.e. until August 8, to make available a vaccine that only immunizes against the three obligatory diseases, namely diphtheria, tetanus and poliomyelitis. . The anti did not therefore drag, and take advantage of this failure to drive the point home.
A letter of a dozen pages would have been given to the Minister of Health, according to The world. Written by Me Jacqueline Bergel, who had already led the battle against the Infantrix vaccine, it demands that vaccines containing aluminum be withdrawn. A request which amounts to claiming the lifting of the vaccine obligation on diphtheria, tetanus and polio.
No replacement
“Aluminum is not eliminated in the body and the blood, it has a biopersistent character,” said the lawyer to the editorial staff ofAllodocteurs.fr. The risk is that this heavy metal then goes up in the brain and creates neuromuscular diseases such as macrophagic myofasciitis, ”she says.
She therefore demands that a vaccine without aluminum be produced. But the only one available was taken off the market in 2008 because it caused many allergic reactions. “All the vaccines in the world against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, whooping cough, meningitis and hepatitis contain aluminum adjuvants,” explains Professor Robert Cohen, pediatrician. There are vaccines without aluminum but not for these diseases ”.
Developing new ones would take years, with no guaranteed result. Aluminum salts are indeed used to trigger the immune reaction, and are therefore at the heart of how vaccines work. They have been in use for a hundred years, but are controversial.
No consensus
For the vast majority of the medical community, they are well tolerated, and no incident has been formally identified. Critics say they cause autoimmune diseases like macrophage myofasciitis, which results in muscle damage or chronic fatigue syndrome.
Only, so far, scientific studies have not shown with certainty a causal link between aluminum and these symptoms. Dr Romain Gherardi, head of the neuromuscular diseases department at Henri Mondor hospital in Créteil, is fighting to have this link recognized. But for the moment, no official body in the world recognizes any danger linked to aluminum salts in vaccines.
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