This Monday, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Pays de la Loire announced the opening of an investigation after the death of a schoolboy who felt unwell and then fell after being vaccinated against the papillomavirus. However, the ARS excludes any link between the vaccine and the malaise.
An investigation was opened after the death of a schoolboy who felt unwell and then fell after being vaccinated against the papillomavirus, the Pays de la Loire Regional Health Agency (ARS) announced on Monday, which ruled out any link. between the vaccine and the malaise. The teenager, a 5th grade student at Saint-Dominique college in Saint-Herblain near Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), had suffered a “heavy fall” which caused head trauma, following discomfort that occurred 15 minutes after vaccination, specifies the ARS in a press release.
“This type of discomfort can occur due to the stress caused by vaccination but is unrelated to the vaccine product or to a quality defect in the vaccine,” insists the ARS.
The vaccination campaign suspended
The student was hospitalized at the Nantes University Hospital after his fall but his condition deteriorated in the days that followed and he “died on October 27,” the press release specifies. An administrative investigation was commissioned by the director general of the ARS “to establish the conditions for carrying out vaccination and its medical supervision in the establishment, as well as the conditions for the medical care of the child”, indicates the agency.
Following the schoolboy’s accident, the vaccination campaign was suspended in Loire-Atlantique on Friday October 20, the eve of the school holidays. It will resume at the start of the school year on November 6, we learned from the ARS. The campaign to vaccinate middle school students in 5th grade against papillomaviruses, the cause of many cancers such as cervical cancer, was launched at the beginning of October in France.