Eight vaccines obligatory

Eight vaccines are to be made compulsory from the start of 2018 to add to the present diptheria, tetanus and polio, with all children born after January 1 receiving all 11 vaccines when due.

Connexion journalist

Published Saturday 30 September 2017 - 15:52 Modified Saturday 30 September 2017 - 15:52

The new compulsory vaccines are for whooping cough, measles, mumps, German measles, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae, pneumococcal disease and meningococcus.

Health Minister Agn猫s Buzyn said it is 鈥渋ntolerable鈥� that 10 children had died from measles in France since 2008 and that young people still die from meningitis when vaccines are available.