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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11740
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Health

Scientific consensus is not necessary for establishing a link between an illness and vaccine

According to the Advocate General, Michal Bobek, addressing the Court of Justice of the European Union on Tuesday 7 March, it should be possible for a judge to consider that disease is a consequence of a vaccine on the sole basis of serious, specific and consistent presumptions, if there is an absence of scientific consensus.

This case (C-621/15) involves an individual who received vaccinations using a product developed by Sanofi Pasteur, against hepatitis B, between the end of 1998 and in...

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