EU vaccines ruling lets patients sue without evidence

 The European Court of Justice has been accused of undermining Britain’s vaccination programme after ruling that patients can sue for illnesses they believe were caused by jabs, even when there is no scientific evidence.

The court said that if a number of healthy people developed a disease shortly after receiving a vaccine then that would serve as enough proof to bring a claim. The ruling opens the door for class actions from patients who believe their health was affected by vaccines, even when there is no medical proof.

Andrew Pollard, professor of paediatric infection and immunity at the University of Oxford, said: “The ruling does not appear to be consistent with the normal rational scientific approach to analysis of evidence, and the decision risks undermining vaccine programmes which save millions of lives around the world every year.” Prof Peter Openshaw, president of the British Society for Immunology, described the ruling as “very concerning”.