2023-11-24 14:31:07
The young teenager, studying in 5th grade at a college in Herblain, near Nantes, died at the end of October. Shortly following being vaccinated once morest the papillomavirus, he felt unwell, then fell, causing head trauma.
The administrative investigation opened following the death at the end of October of a schoolboy who felt unwell and then fell following being vaccinated once morest the papillomavirus near Nantes, did not identify any “dysfunction in the organization of the vaccination campaign “, affirms the Regional Health Agency (ARS) in a press release published this Friday, November 24. The ARS deplores a “dramatic accident”.
A “heavy fall” following vaccination
“The investigation does not reveal any dysfunction in the organization of the vaccination campaign, in the preparation of the Federal Prevention and Screening Center (CFPD 44), (…) or in the distribution and provision of vaccines circuit which would have been the cause of the accident which led to the death of the young boy”, indicates the ARS of Pays de la Loire in a press release.
At the end of October, a 5th grade student from Saint-Dominique college in Saint-Herblain near Nantes, in Loire-Atlantique, felt unwell and then had a “heavy fall”, fifteen minutes following being vaccinated, a fall which caused head trauma .
Hospitalized at the Nantes University Hospital, the teenager’s condition deteriorated over the following days and he died.
“Elements” still to be “deepened”
The investigation was opened just a month ago, on October 24, at the request of the director general of the ARS. The objective was “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”.
However, the ARS recommends implementing several recommendations, following the death of the schoolboy. It asks to “clarify the role and missions of the different stakeholders during a vaccination session”, to “better prevent the risk of stress for young people”, to “fully mobilize the vaccination team for vaccination and post-vaccination medical surveillance, in a relationship of trust with the young person” and finally to “complete certain processes of the vaccination team”.
Furthermore, the ARS considers, in its press release, that additional research is necessary concerning the circumstances of the schoolboy’s death. “Elements still need to be explored in greater depth on the conditions for triggering emergency assistance and taking care of the young boy following his fall,” adds the agency, specifying that its general director will commission the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs on this matter. point.
No contraindication for continued vaccination
“Given the conclusions of the administrative investigation mission, the vaccination campaign in Pays de la Loire can continue,” concludes the health authority.
The Nantes public prosecutor’s office had for its part opened an investigation into manslaughter.
The autopsy confirmed that “the death of the young man was the result of craniocerebral trauma,” revealed the Nantes public prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul. “Today we have no evidence to indicate that the vaccine product itself was the cause of the death,” he added.
A campaign suspended for a while
After this death, the vaccination campaign was suspended in Loire-Atlantique on Friday October 20, the eve of the school holidays. It resumed at the start of the school year on November 6.
On November 14, the Medicines Agency (ANSM) recommended that in the quarter of an hour following the injection, adolescents should remain lying or sitting on the ground with their backs once morest a wall.
The campaign to vaccinate middle school students in 5th grade once morest human papillomavirus (HPV), the cause of many cancers such as cervical cancer, was launched at the beginning of October in France. It is not obligatory.
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