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Health and medicine: What's new in France in 2026
Including social security law and a potential new charge for foreign residents
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Peak in flu cases in France expected in January
Pressure on hospitals is expected to intensify after the holiday period
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New healthcare fee in France: more retirees set to face charge
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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.
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.
