At a time when distrust of vaccines is growing, as evidenced by the recent INPES investigation against Hepatitis B, the Minister of Health takes up the subject. She intends to patch up the French with the importance of vaccination. To do this, she decides to initiate a major national debate in the fall. This period coincides with the submission of a report by PS MP Sandrine Hurel on vaccination policy. This document will serve as a support for the debate. He will identify the blockages that are smoldering in France and will make recommendations to lift them, explains Marisol Touraine in an interview given to Le Parisien.
The Minister recalls the collective issue underlying vaccination: “By deciding not to vaccinate your child, you not only put the child at risk, but those around him, the entire population. With the risk of seeing the reappearance of certain contagious and deadly diseases, which have now completely disappeared”, she warns in the daily.
Distrust of vaccines observed elsewhere in Europe
Marisol Touraine claims to be aware that the climate of suspicion around vaccines is much higher in France than in other European countries. “To achieve a flawless vaccine system, it is absolutely necessary to achieve everyone’s support, and it is not enough to set objectives to convince”, she always justifies at Parisian.
The INPES survey published in July 2015 revealed that 46.8% of parents who had not had their children vaccinated against Hepatitis B did so out of mistrust of vaccination, while 36% were against it. .
But this wind of skepticism towards vaccines is also blowing in other European countries, as evidenced by the recent case in Spain of a child who died of diphtheria, because the parents had refused to have him vaccinated. The case caused controversy, raising fears about the return of a disease that had disappeared for 30 years in the country.
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