Antivax, the return? Emmanuel Macron announced this week a free and widespread vaccination campaign in colleges for 5th graders to eradicate the human papillomavirus (HPV). This virus, which is World Awareness Day this Saturday, is responsible for 6,000 new cases of cancer in women and men each year.
This may be putting the cart before the horse, but this public health measure, the effects of which would undoubtedly be beneficial, also risks reactivating the nebula of vaccine-skeptics, very mobilized a few months ago against the anti-serum. Covid. Interview with Laurent-Henri Vignaud, historian of science, and co-author with Françoise Salvadori of Antivax: resistance to vaccines from the 18th century to the present day (Vendémiaire editions, 2019).
