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8:12 a.m., November 6, 2023
Classes start again this Monday! After the All Saints’ Day holidays and the resumption of vaccination against the papillomavirus, Catholic teaching requests the suspension of vaccination. A real heresy for infectious disease specialists.
Discomfort and feelings of dizziness are among the known side effects after any vaccination, particularly against the papillomavirus. Discomfort is often due to stress before the injection and fear of the needle.
The biggest risk when fainting is a bad fall and the consequence can be head trauma, which would have caused the death of a schoolboy. But this does not mean that vaccination should be suspended, according to specialists.
One of the safest vaccines
“If you feel unwell when getting off a train, we are not going to, as a precaution, stop the entire rail network. It is very rare to have such effective vaccine tools against cancers such as cervical cancer, anal cancer, ENT cancer which are very common in men and women, linked to the papillomavirus”, insists infectious disease specialist Gilles Pialoux.
He recalls that this vaccine is one of the safest, with more than 300 million doses administered over the last fifteen years worldwide and with an effectiveness that no longer needs to be proven. Vaccination prevents 90% of papillomavirus infections, which are responsible for many cancers.