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French prosecutors have launched an investigation into the death of a 12-year-old boy who collapsed minutes after receiving Gardasil’s human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in a school setting and subsequently died of head trauma, according to French media.
The boy, referred to in news reports as Elouan, studied at Saint-Dominique College, a private school in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), he felt “malaise” 15 minutes after vaccination and sustained a “heavy fall.”
French newspaper Le Monde reported that the vaccination occurred on Oct. 19 as part of a nationwide campaign prompting HPV vaccines in French schools for students 11-14 years old.
Following his injury, Elouan was taken to Nantes University Hospital, but his condition deteriorated and he died on Oct. 27.
Le Monde, quoting the Regional Health Authority of Pays de la Loire (ARS), reported that Elouan “fell heavily to the floor,” with the back of his head striking the “hard surface” in the room where the vaccination took place.
In an Oct. 30 press release cited by Ouest France, ARS said, “Despite the intervention” of the nurses present, Elouan’s “condition deteriorated in the following days in relation to the severity of his head trauma.”
The Nantes public prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation for involuntary manslaughter in Elouan’s death. According to Le Monde, prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul seeks to “determine whether the medical treatment of this minor — before, during and after the injection — was carried out according to the rules of the art.”
Gaudeul told Ouest France, “We want to understand how a young boy could have died in these circumstances.” No complaint has yet been filed by the victim’s parents, Ouest France reported.
In its press release, ARS ruled out any connection between the HPV vaccine and Elouan’s collapse, claiming instead, “This type of malaise can occur due to stress caused by vaccination but is unrelated to the vaccine product or to a quality defect in the vaccine.”
Nevertheless, the agency ordered an administrative investigation “to establish the conditions for carrying out vaccination and its medical supervision … as well as the conditions for medical care of the child.”
French Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau also addressed the incident, telling the French National Assembly the “malaise” Elouan suffered was “the main adverse effect of any form of vaccination” and had “no link with the injected product.”
“Everything will obviously be examined and made public,” Rousseau said. “As I speak to you, approximately 20,000 doses have been injected. This is the only serious, tragic adverse event that we have had to experience.”
Jean-Jacques Bourguignon’s 15-year-old daughter, Marie-Océane, was injured after receiving Gardasil in 2010. He told The Defender that, contrary to Rousseau’s claims, the French government has ignored reports of adverse events. Having “written several times to our presidents and ministers of health,” he said, “nothing happens.”
French science journalist and writer Xavier Bazin, author of “Big Pharma démasqué!” and “Antivax toi-même!” wrote on his website that French health authorities were repeating “a fable” by the World Health Organization (WHO) that post-vaccination syncope is “psychological.”
Also known as fainting, syncope is defined as a “temporary loss of consciousness with a quick recovery.” The WHO calls this an immunization stress-related response.
Autopsy attributes Elouan’s death to fall, not vaccination
According to AFP, the vaccination program was suspended in Loire-Atlantique on Oct. 20 but was slated to resume Nov. 6.