Parents in France will be legally obligate to immunize their children against 11 rough-cut malady from 2018 onwards .
Currently , only three vaccinum – diphtheria , tetanus , and polio – are required in France . This new program want to extend this to admit eight more : morbilli , hepatitis B , influenza , whooping coughing , mumps , three-day measles , pneumonia , and meningitis C.
The plans were announced by France ’s new select minister Edouard Philippe during Tuesday ’s parliamentary address , Le Figaroreports .
Speaking toFrench newspaper Le Parisienlast calendar month , France ’s Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn said they were making eleven vaccines required in light of a rubeola epidemic in France . Between 2008 and 2016 , over24,000 cases of measles(and 10 morbilli - concern deaths ) were reported in France , despite vaccinations being widely available .
“ Today , only three infant vaccines are compulsory ( diphtheria , tetanus , and polio ) . This poses a real public health job , ” Buzyn tell .
” Today , in France , measles reappears . It is not adequate that children conk from it : 10 have go since 2008 . Since this vaccinum is only recommend and not mandatory , the reporting rate is 75 pct , whereas it should be 95 per centum to prevent this epidemic . We have the same problem with meningitis . ”
In May , the Italian government ruled that children must be vaccinated against 12 usual malady before they can attend state - run school .
In a studycarried out on 65,819 individuals across 67 state last year , France was the most disbelieving country about vaccine prophylactic in the world . The survey found 41 per centum of respondents in France dissent with the statement “ vaccines are secure ” , compared to a global norm of 13 percent .
fearfulness about vaccinum condom for the most part stem from afraudulent studyby Andrew Wakefield . The study , published in the medical journal The Lancet in 1998 , argued there was a connectedness between the measles , mumps , and rubella ( MMR ) vaccine and the appearance of autism and bowel disease .
Wakefield has since beenbarred from practicing as a doctorin the UK after being feel guilty of serious professional misconduct . His subject area was officially forswear from the daybook it was print inafter they founda " fatal difference of involvement " .
