France Expands 2026 Vaccination Rules Amid Resurgence Jean-Bernard Gervais Medscape Europe May 18, 2026

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/france-expands-2026-vaccination-rules-amid-resurgence-2026a1000fwm In an opinion piece published in Le Parisien, a French daily newspaper, during European Immunization Week in April 2026, some 300 researchers, physicians, writers, journalists, leaders of scientific institutions, members of parliament, and civil society figures warn that what science has long established is now being challenged. They say childhood immunization programs that once protected millions are being abandoned and that the alleged link between vaccines and autism — a claim repeatedly and rigorously dismissed by the international scientific community — is being portrayed to the public as if it were credible. The main public health agency of the US, the CDC, in November 2025, briefly amplified a false theory about a vaccine-autism connection after a policy reversal pushed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr; physicians and scientific experts have since refuted that misinformation.