Yasmina Kattou // Photo credit: PEAKSTOCK / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRAR / LDA / Science Photo Library via AFP 06:15, 06 November 2023

Classes start again this Monday! After the All Saints' Day holidays and the resumption of vaccination against the papillomavirus, Catholic education is calling for the suspension of vaccination. A veritable heresy for infectious disease specialists.

Discomfort and feelings of dizziness are among the known side effects after any vaccination, especially against the papillomavirus. The discomfort is often due to the stress felt before the injection and the fear of the needle.

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The biggest risk when you faint is a bad fall and the consequence can be a head injury, which would have caused the death of a middle school student. But that doesn't mean vaccination should be suspended, experts say.

One of the safest vaccines

"If you feel unwell when you get off a train, we're not going to shut down the entire rail network as a precaution. It is very rare to have such effective vaccine tools against cancers such as cervical cancer, anal cancer, ENT cancer, which are very common in men and women, linked to the papillomavirus," insists infectious disease specialist Gilles Pialoux.

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He points out that this vaccine is one of the safest, with more than 300 million doses administered over the last fifteen years worldwide and with an efficacy that no longer needs to be proven. Vaccination prevents 90% of HPV infections, which are responsible for many cancers.