This college in Saint-Herblain (Loire-Atlantique), near Nantes, is deeply shocked by the death of one of its students. On October 19, 2023, a teenager enrolled in 5th grade died following serious head trauma, resulting from a fall after vagal discomfort, which occurred a little over a week earlier. As reported France Blue Loire Ocean Monday October 30, 2023, he had just received an injection of the papillomavirus vaccine 15 minutes earlier, the campaign for which was launched at the beginning of October 2023 in 7,000 colleges in France. While an administrative investigation was opened to determine the exact circumstances of this tragedy, the Pays de la Loire Regional Health Agency (ARS) estimated thatno link was established between the victim’s discomfort and the product itself, or a quality defect in the vaccine. “This type of discomfort can occur due to the stress caused by vaccination,” can we read in this press release reported by Franceinfo.
Vaccination against papillomavirus is recommended
Tuesday October 31, 2023 on RTLthe Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau was invited to react to this affair. “Vagal discomfort is the first risk in any vaccination. It is the fear of the needle… There is no link with the injected product. It is a vaccine that we are very familiar with. well, it has been injected 300 million times around the world”, he recalled, questioned by Amandine Bégot, specifying that the vaccine against the papillomavirus is “one of the safest in the world”. This vaccination campaign against HPV viruses is not compulsory but recommended for girls and boys aged 11 and over, to prevent human papillomavirus infection, transmitted during sexual contact and which can develop into cancer, particularly of the cervix. Taken into care by the Nantes University Hospital in intensive care, the schoolboy did not survive his heavy fall on his head. A preliminary investigation into manslaughter was opened by the Nantes public prosecutor’s office to shed light on the tragedy. “As I speak to you, approximately 20,000 vaccines were injected, This is the only serious, tragic adverse event that we have had to experience.”had also affirmed Aurélien Rousseau before the National Assembly, on October 30, 2023, cited by 20 minutes.