Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 06/21/2017

Subject: The Court affirmed that where there is a lack of scientific consensus, the proof of the defect of the vaccine and of a causal link between the defect and the damage suffered may be made out by serious, specific and consistent evidence. The temporal proximity between the administering of a vaccine and the occurrence of a disease, the lack of personal and familial history of the person vaccinated and the existence of a significant number of reported cases of the disease occurring following such vaccines being. administered may, where applicable, constitute sufficient evidence to make out such proof

Parties: W e a.

Classification: Solidarity - Art. 35 Preventive health care

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