From June 2006 to March 2013, approximately 57 million doses of HPV vaccines were distributed and VAERS received approximately 22,000 adverse event reports occurring in girls and women who received them. Studies in medical journals like Pediatrics, Cancer Epidemiology and Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics conclude that doctors have issues with Gardasil. A recent analysis of 4,900 women in Nordic countries, which use more robust medical records systems than the United States, found Gardasil "is effective up to 6 years following vaccination with . 6 Cervarix, also known as human papillomavirus bivalent vaccine recombinant, was approved in 2009. (To illustrate this concept, we offer the following [admittedly far-fetched] scenario: A man who received a flu vaccination and then accidentally hit his hand with a hammer a few hours later might legitimately report that soon after he received the flu vaccine, his hand began to throb painfully. When the researchers looked at the data by state, they found that the number of parents citing safety concerns increased in 30 states and more than doubled in California, Mississippi, South Dakota, and Hawaii. The girls were administered the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine in three rounds that year under the supervision of state health department officials. Epub 2014 Nov 13. The suspension would last at least 14 days,the country's health authority said. AstraZeneca's vaccine has been granted conditional marketing authorization or emergency use in more than 70 countries, including the UK and across the European Union. If the government were to resume promoting the HPV vaccine in Japan, our study shows that we could avoid most of this loss of life, said study co-author Sharon Hanley, a professor at Hokkaido University in northern Japan. 2020 Dec 10;8(4):549. doi: 10.3390/healthcare8040549. Asked what action the authority takes in response to adverse-reaction reports, the spokeswoman said it reviews and sends them to the agency, which maintains a database of reactions reported by other countries worldwide. 18 countries have suspended the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine while possible side effects are investigated. This propensity to sensationalism over informed reporting is one that crops up with each new or rehashed panic story. The CDC and FDA did this for HPV vaccines in 2009, looking at the first 12,424 reports to VAERS and publishing the result in the Journal of the American Medical Association. GARDASIL 9. Germany,. Low-income and lower-middle-income countries have introduced HPV vaccine at much lower rates than high-income countries, reflecting global disparities in cervical cancer incidence and mortality. Whether this is borne of genuine ignorance or cynical vote-chasing we can only speculate, but it risks adding to the public perception there is some genuine debate over the safety and efficacy of the vaccine when this is resoundingly not the case. There has been a rise in negative and incorrect informationalso called misinformationabout HPV vaccines on social media in recent years, Dr. Sonawane noted. "FDA Approves Expanded Uses for Gardasil." Nationwide programs, such as CDCs Vaccinate with Confidence program, can help tackle vaccine misinformation and provide resources for effective communications, Dr. Sonawane said. Norway's health authority also said it was looking into the possibility of a joint Nordic analysis into the reports. 18 countries have suspended the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine while possible side effects are investigated. The 100 countries cover only 30% of the global target population. While this makes for an arresting anecdote, the implicit assumption that the temporal sequence is anything other than coincidental is comprehensively debunked by the scientific and statistical evidence against it. Gardasil: the human papilloma virus vaccine protects against cervical and other forms of cancer. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and eight other regional leaders signed a letter supporting HPV vaccination. However, HPV is sexually transmitted and can cause genital warts and benign tumors on the aerodigestive tract, a condition called laryngeal papillomatosis. An official website of the United States government. There was no common pattern to the deaths that would suggest that they were caused by the vaccine. Graa Freitas, head of health authority DGS, told a news conference that the side effects being evaluted were severe but rare. Meanwhile, the rate of nonserious health issues following HPV vaccination reported in VAERS dropped from 43 to 28 per 100,000 vaccine doses. Any other allegations about her lack of support for vaccinations is based on misinformation, disinformation and lies. Reporting by Rocky Swift; editing by Jane Wardell. Like all clinical compounds, Gardasil has been extensively tested for years, constantly monitored for potential adverse effects. Uptake was swift when the vaccine was introduced in Japan in 2009, with immunization reaching about 70% in adolescent girls. Unfortunately, VAERS data is notoriously spotty better than nothing, but there's no way to insure that potential side effects are reported. That article grossly misrepresents what Dr. Harper actually said. It said 59 per cent of the reports or 648 cases were considered serious, meaning they included circumstances where patients required intervention, such as a review by their GP, treatment for their symptoms, or both. Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine. Latvia initially suspended the use of a specific batch of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot on March 9. Francis JKR, Rodriguez SA, Dorsey O, Blackwell JM, Balasubramanian BA, Kale N, Day P, Preston SM, Thompson EL, Pruitt SL, Tiro JA. "Vaccine Can Save Vast Number of Lives, Says Cancer Specialist." Encouraging HPV Vaccination via an Evolutionary Theoretical Approach: A Randomized Controlled Study in Japan. The findings highlight an urgent need for doctors and public health leaders to address these concerns with parents, according to the scientists who led the study. CDC says HPV down by 56% among teenagers since vaccine introduction, Conservatives' HPV vaccine dilemma: are they anti-cancer, or just anti-sex? But it wasnt recommended for use in males until 2011 by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the group of medical experts that gives guidance on vaccines for the public. The presence of a safety signal information about a new or known adverse reaction that requires investigation does not directly mean that a medicinal product or vaccine has caused the reported adverse reaction or event., Published studies are also reviewed, as relevant evidence is assessed in order to establish where a causal relationship exists between the vaccine and the reported event, she said. In astatement on Sunday, AstraZeneca said that there was no evidence its COVID-19 vaccine led to an increased risk of blood clots"in any defined age group, gender, batch, or in any particular country.". Nearly always caused by sexually-transmitted HPV, cervical cancer is the fourth most common type of the disease in women globally. Accordingly, there appears to be a fundamental difference in the approach to vaccine policymaking between Japan (MHLW/VARRC) and other countries and the World Health Organization, which base policy decisions on the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine. Indications: Indicated in girls and women 9 . These claims were frequently presented uncritically, giving these tired myths a new audience of worried parents. This has now been rescheduled for Tuesday, Reuters reported. "Panel Unanimously Recommends Cervical Cancer Vaccine for Girls 11 and Up." Officials said they were waiting for more information from the WHO. In Japan, around 10,000 women develop cervical cancer each year,. "Around 17 million people in the EU and UK have now received our vaccine, and the number of cases of blood clots reported in this group is lower than the hundreds of cases that would be expected among the general population," Ann Taylor, AstraZeneca's chief medical officer, said. And based on the data available, it is unlikely (though not impossible) that even those deaths were caused by the vaccine. They found that for girls, the top four reasons parents gave for not vaccinating stayed relatively stable between 2010 and 2016. Before There was only one pan-European study involving four countries: France, the UK, Germany, and Italy. Worldwide studies have shown the vaccine to be virtually 100 percent effective and very safe, with the FDA concluding that the vast majority of side effects are minor, and that benefits continue to outweigh adverse events. While sensitivity by media organisations is laudable, is it completely irresponsible journalism to suspend all critical faculties when reporting on vaccines. Proper Name: Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant. But from 2015 to 2018, the study showed, the percentage of parents who declined the HPV vaccine for their kids due to safety concerns nearly doubled. Tradename: GARDASIL 9. However, numerous instances of serious adverse reactions were widely reported in the media, resulting in the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) suspending the official recommendation of the HPV vaccine on June 14, 2013. For the study, the researchers mined data from the 20102016 National Immunization Survey-Teen (NIS-Teen), a series of annual vaccine monitoring surveys conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's normal for these reports to pour in for safe vaccines. Human papillomavirus (HPV) has long haunted humankind; almost all sexually active adults carry some of HPVs 170 strains. It's true that there have been 24,000 reports of adverse events with Gardasil. Copyright 2023 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, HPV: WHO calls for countries to suspend vaccination of boys, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust: Consultant Psychiatrist General Adult - Orsborn House CMHT, NHS Tayside: Salaried GP with Special Interest in Drug Use, Harm and Reduction, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust: Consultant Psychiatrist General Adult - Northcroft CMHT, Brent Area Medical Centre: Salaried GP - Brent Area Medical Centre, Womens, childrens & adolescents health. Chris Dutil, Stockbridge Tradename: Gardasil Manufacturer: Merck & Co., Inc Indications: Prevention of vulvar and vaginal cancer Vaccination in females 9 through 26 years of age for prevention of the following diseases. . The researchers specifically looked at Guillain-Barr Syndrome, a neurological disorder that had been linked to a bad batch of flu shots; there wasn't a signal that this was a problem with Gardasil. Next year, the World Health Assembly will discuss a Draft Global Strategy for the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health issue, presented for approval, which will provide countries with targets and strategic actions for countries in their efforts. And there is no way to tell if a particular side effect is linked to the vaccine. And research has shown that parents who are exposed to misinformation about HPV vaccines on social media are less likely to vaccinate their children. But by 2018, that percentage had risen to 23%. As of December 31, 2008, there have been 32 U.S. reports of death among females who have received the vaccine. This does not sound like a researcher who is losing sleep about the HPV vaccine, but who fully supports its use, with some exceptions. There is no evidence yet that the AstraZeneca vaccine causes blood clots. Some of this is based on simple misunderstandings, but a significant proportion is down to the success anti-vaccine campaigners have in sharing their claims online and across social media. The .gov means its official. Both had received vaccines from the same batch, the authorities said. Studies have shown that while individuals trust medical professionals for health information, a growing number are turning to the internet for first and second opinions about HPV, HPV vaccines, and HPV-associated cancer, they continued.