Vaccination policy
Like in most countries without mandatory vaccination, Luxembourg citizens experience great pressure coming from pediatricians, schools etc. People who do not vaccinate their children are defined as crazy an irresponsible. Many people don’t have a clue that vaccination is optional. A delegation of people from AEGIS met the chief doctor, Dr. Jean-Claude Schmit, another MD and their lawyer at the ministry of Health. They sent the delegation to the Ministry of Education, where they had already been last July – who sent them back to the Ministry of Health. AEGIS is preparing yet another letter to Dr. Schmit telling about the scandal that it would take so much time to have a public declaration of the status quo. The only exception in Luxembourg is the army.
Vaccination schedule
- Diphteria (6 doses in exa, penta and tetravalent formulations at 2m, 3m, 4m and between 13m and 22m, 2y and 6y, 15y and 16y)
- Tetanus (6 doses in exa, penta and tetravalent formulations at 2m, 3m, 4m and between 13m and 22m, 2y and 6y, 15y and 16y)
- Poliomyelitis (6 doses in exa, penta and tetravalent formulations at 2m, 3m, 4m and between 13m and 22m, 2y and 6y, 15y and 16y)
- Pertussis (6 doses in exa, penta and tetravalent formulations at 2m, 3m, 4m and between 13m and 22m, 2y and 6y, 15y and 16y)
- Hepatitis B (2 doses in exa, penta and tetravalent formulations at 2m and 3m, plus at birth when born from HbsAg+ mothers)
- Haemophilus B (4 doses in exa, penta and tetravalent formulations at 2m, 3m, 4m and between 13m and 22m)
- Rotavirus (2 doses at 2m and 3m)
- Pneumococcus (2 doses at 2m and 4m)
- Measles (2 doses in trivalent formulation at 12m and between 15m and 23m)
- Mumps (2 doses in trivalent formulation at 12m and between 15m and 23m)
- Rubella (2 doses in trivalent formulation at 12m and between 15m and 23m)
- Chickenpox (2 doses at 12m and between 15m and 23m)
- Meningococcus (1 dose between 13m and 22m)
- HPV (1 dose between 11y and 13y)
(do we miss anything?? Anyway: “m” stands for months, “y” stands for years)
School
Directors of nurseries (crèches), pre-school, schools, etc., demand vaccinations, despite the fact that vaccination is a private issue. AEGIS is currently working on the fact that most nurseries (crèches) ask for at least 4 vaccines (T, D, Polio and Pertussis) and they just have to don’t care at this. Some rare crèches do not ask for vaccines.