The government announced this measure, which is part of the Social Security financing bill, Thursday, September 29, 2017.

It is therefore official: babies born from 1 January 2018 must be vaccinated against polio, tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae bacteria (responsible for serious infections), pneumococcal and meningococcal C. Either 11 vaccines in total.

Parents will have ten bites to be made to their newborns between their birth and their 18 months (reminders included).

Those who refuse to vaccinate their children will not be fined or penalized as stipulated in an article of the Health Code (six months in prison and 3,750 euros fine for "refusal to submit to the obligation vaccine ") because it will be repealed.

In contrast, access to nurseries and schools will be denied to their toddlers.

Vaccines to protect children and "the whole of society"

"Today, only three are required childhood vaccines (diphtheria, tetanus, and polio). Eight others, including whooping cough, hepatitis B, measles, are recommended only ^2. This dual system is a French exception. This raises A real public health problem Today, in France, measles reappears It is not tolerable that children die: ten have died since 2008, "explained in mid-June Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Solidarity and Health. Health in the newspaper Le Parisien, to justify this change.

Faced with the distrust of the French vaccination and its deleterious side effects, the minister evoked a paradoxical situation: "On the one hand, the French want a vaccine as soon as a virus appears, like Ebola or Zika. they are suspicious of the existing ones, it troubles me because they have saved billions of lives, but we have forgotten it. " She adds that it is "not just the interest that one finds oneself there, it is an issue of solidarity, a way of protecting the whole of society."

A boon for pharmaceutical lobbies?

The profit that could benefit the pharmaceutical companies in the face of this new obligation obviously raises some questions.

"Yes, industrialists are making money, but we can not reduce the issue of vaccination to the interest of laboratories," the minister said.

In the process, some elected officials had seized the subject and denounced this pharmaceutical lobbying.

Like Michèle Rivasi, an ecologist MEP who wondered "about the gift given to pharmaceutical companies by a minister who has always been close to the pharmaceutical industry and who has even legitimized the conflicts of interest that are in part the cause of the jeopardizing of our public health system today. " ³

As a reminder, the Council of State had made the availability of the three compulsory vaccines grouped under the diminutive "DTP", the 8th of February 2017, compulsory for sale alone (without association with others).

Previously, most laboratories combined these vaccines with the so-called "recommended" vaccines in polyvalent injectable products like DTP, and generally sold them more expensive.

To read the full article of the Parisian: www.leparisien.fr/societe/la-ministre-de-la-sante-agnes-buzyn-vend-rendre-rendre-onze-vaccins-obligatoires-15-06-2017-7055664 .php

1 - Vaccine confidence Project survey, September 2016.
2 - The following vaccines are also recommended: mumps, rubella, Haemophilus influenzae bacteria, pneumococcus, meningococcus C.
3 - www.michele-rivasi.eu/a-la-une/11-vaccines- obligatory-in-the-interest-of-which-non-a-vaccination-force/