The teenager suffered vagal discomfort after receiving a papillomavirus vaccine before falling heavily on his head within the college grounds. Hospitalized for a week, the schoolboy died
Strong emotion at the top of the State: an investigation into manslaughter was opened after the death of a schoolboy, who felt unwell then fell after being vaccinated against the papillomavirus, the Nantes prosecutor’s office announced on Monday .
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The teenager, a 5th grade student at Saint-Dominique middle school in Saint-Herblain near Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), suffered a “heavy fall” on October 19, which caused a head trauma, following an illness that occurred 15 minutes after vaccination, specifies the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Pays de la Loire, which excludes any link between the vaccine product and the discomfort. “This type of discomfort can occur due to stress caused by vaccination, but is unrelated to the vaccine product or to a quality defect in the vaccine.“, insists the ARS.
The student was hospitalized at the Nantes University Hospital after his fall, but his condition deteriorated in the days that followed and he is “died this October 27“, France Bleu Loire Océan learned this Monday from the Regional Health Agency.
An administrative investigation was launched 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. In addition, the national drug safety agency has also been contacted.
“Everything will obviously be examined and made public”
In front of the National Assembly, Monday October 30, the Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau spoke and assured that all the light will be shed. “Obviously, I think today of his parents, of their pain, undoubtedly of their anger too“, declared the minister, specifying that “Everything will obviously be examined and made public“. Aurélien Rousseau also affirmed that this type of discomfort was “the main side effect of any form of vaccination“and that he had”no link with the injected product”: “As I speak to you, approximately 20,000 vaccines have been injected, this is the only serious, tragic adverse event that we have had to experience“, he indicated.
If the vaccination campaign was suspended in Loire-Atlantique on Friday October 20, the eve of the school holidays, the regional health agency announces that vaccinations will resume in the department from Monday November 6, upon returning from the holidays. The campaign against the papillomavirus, the cause of numerous cancers such as cervical cancer, began at the beginning of October, in 7,000 colleges in France.