In a petition launched almost a year ago, and which has since collected more than a million signatures, Henri Joyeux warned against the use of certain vaccines.
Almost a year after creating the controversy, Professor Henri Joyeux, retired oncologist surgeon, appeared on May 27, 2016 before the disciplinary chamber of the Council of the Order of Physicians of the Languedoc Roussillon region. The reason ? An anti-vaccine petition launched in June 2015 and which totals over a million signatures.
This petition accuses laboratories and public authorities of having organized a shortage of vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus and polio – compulsory vaccines known by the abbreviation DT-Polio to replace them with the Infanrix Hexa, a vaccine that combines six vaccines , DTP but also vaccines against pertussis, meningitis in children and hepatitis B.
No proven toxicity
If Professor Joyeux defends the DT-Polio vaccination (the only one compulsory in France), he considers on the other hand that the use of Infanrix Hexa poses a problem: not only because it costs 7 times more expensive than the other vaccines but also because it contains aluminum and formaldehyde, “two substances which are dangerous or even very dangerous for humans and in particular infants, which can in particular cause a serious disease, macrophagic myofasciitis. “He adds in the petition that” the hepatitis B vaccine [présent dans l’Infanrix Hexa] is suspected of a link with multiple sclerosis ”.
To these attacks, Marisol Touraine, but especially infectious disease specialists, responded in June 2015, explaining that, contrary to what Professor Joyeux denounces in his petition, there is no scientific data proving the toxicity of vaccines for the brain ( multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s) and muscles (macrophage myofasciitis).
Verdict within a few weeks
Appearing before the disciplinary chamber for having “discredited the profession by holding alarmist speeches on vaccines and relying on unestablished scientific evidence”, Henri Joyeux (70 years old), who no longer works as a surgeon since September 2014, and which had already been at the origin of an appeal against the vaccination against the papillomavirus (HPV) in 2014, risks the radiation of the Order of the doctors, a sanction which would imply the prohibition to practice and which can be either temporary or permanent. The professor’s fate should be sealed within four to five weeks.
.
