The families of sick children after having received a vaccine against meningitis C, Meningitec, were rejected of their requests for compensation by the court of Clermont-Ferrand, their lawyer said Tuesday (December 8th).
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The families have been rejected and will have no compensation,
” said Emmanuel Ludot, while stressing the “
educational virtue of the judgment for the next vaccine against Covid-19
”.
The court's decision "
shows that laboratories are bound by a duty of transparency and the judge notes that our action was admissible and necessary,
" he said.
More than 150 families demanded compensation from the CSP laboratory (Center for pharmaceutical specialties) located in Cournon-d'Auvergne, in the Puy-de-Dôme, which they accused of having distributed Meningitec in syringes likely to contain heavy metal residues .
A number of children vaccinated with these batches had suffered from acute diarrhea, high fever, sleep disturbances, irritability, skin rashes, etc. "
The expert reports concluded that the side effects are not related to the defect of the vaccine
”, detailed Me Ludot.
"
According to the judge, the residues like iron oxide only touched the syringe and not its contents, so the vaccine was not adulterated,
" he added.
Following the discovery of several defective syringes, the American laboratory Nuron Biotech carried out a worldwide withdrawal of 21 batches of this vaccine in 2014. In France, all the batches had been withdrawn as a precaution in September 2014, through the intermediary of the 'National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM).
But the vaccine was still prescribed three months later.
Following several investigations, the ANSM concluded in July 2016 that there was no risk to the health of vaccinated people.
"
We hope that the side effects will subside, but families still have the possibility of requesting new expertise in the next five years if worrying symptoms persist,
" said Ludot.
"
Now that the medical and scientific truth is known, the case can end there, but each family will individually make the decision to appeal or not
," he said.
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