A third of French people disagree that vaccines are safe, according to the Wellcome Global Monitor survey. This scepticism over vaccinations reflects the public’s comparatively high distrust of politicians, say experts on France’s anti-vaccine movement. “The anti-vaccine movement in France is a more recent development than the anti-vaccine movement in England. French people expect so much of our state and so they are also very critical of it,” Vignaud said. A turning point came in 2009 when the French government ordered huge quantities of vaccine against the swine flu epidemic.

Source: The Guardian June 19, 2019 03:56 UTC