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Digital rollout of French health cards expanded: how to get one
The carte Vitale is now available through an app, which can be used by foreign residents with residency cards or visas
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New health fee: which countries have a bilateral social security agreement with France?
Some retirees living in France on ‘visitor visas’ may soon face proposed new charge
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What is the attestation de droits I have been asked for in France?
People can be asked for the document in several circumstances
Eight vaccines obligatory
Eight vaccines are to be made compulsory from the start of 2018 to add to the present diptheria, tetanus and polio, with all children born after January 1 receiving all 11 vaccines when due.
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The new compulsory vaccines are for whooping cough, measles, mumps, German measles, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae, pneumococcal disease and meningococcus.
Health Minister Agnès Buzyn said it is “intolerable” that 10 children had died from measles in France since 2008 and that young people still die from meningitis when vaccines are available.
