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November 2, 2023
In the vicinity of Nantes, a teenager died after falling to the ground. He had been vaccinated against the papillomavirus a little earlier.
It was in the courtyard of the Saint Herblain college, in the suburbs of Nantes, that the tragedy occurred. After being vaccinated against the papillomavirus, a teenager collapsed. He died shortly after due to head trauma. What happened ? And how can we explain such a death? Response elements.
Vagal discomfort “unrelated to the vaccine product or to a quality defect in the vaccine”
According to the facts, the 5th grade student suffered vagal discomfort, only 15 minutes after being vaccinated against the papillomavirus. His head then hit the ground violently.
Taken care of by emergency services, he was transferred to the Nantes university hospital center.
Unfortunately, the young man died in hospital a week later following a “head trauma“, according to the regional health agency (ARS) of Pays-de-la-Loire.
If a “preliminary investigation for manslaughter” is underway, and justice must do its job to elucidate the circumstances of this tragedy, the ARS assures that “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“.
The Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, also considered that this type of discomfort was “the main adverse effect of any form of vaccination” and that he did not have “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“, specified the minister.
Despite everything, the director of the ARS wishes to lift the veil on this incident. An administrative investigation was ordered in order to “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“.
Any vaccine must be carried out in “good conditions”
If this incident raises a certain number of questions, Dr Kierzek would like to reassure people wishing to have their children and/or adolescents vaccinated: the young man’s death is linked to his bad fall and not to the injected product.
“If the investigation is ongoing, and the facts must be confirmed, one thing is certain: the discomfort, which occurred immediately after the injection, eliminates the hypothesis of a potential side effect of the product. This loss of consciousness could have been linked to any injection, or even a blood donation. assures Dr. Kierzek, before adding “On the other hand, and it is important to remember: a medical procedure is never trivial. Any vaccination must be carried out in good conditions, in peace, in an armchair…“.