Japan’s Ongoing Crisis on HPV Vaccination, 2020, Sekine et al

[Andy]

Not posting for the pro- or anti-HPV vaccine argument, but to highlight how possible side-effects, or unrelated health issue, are swept in to the "functional somatic" wastebasket.

The Japanese government suspended proactive recommendations for the HPV vaccine in June 2013. The suspension is now in its seventh year, despite all the data pointing to the safety of the HPV vaccine.

We reported a high vaccine effectiveness in the group of women vaccinated before their first intercourse (93.9%). The prevalence of cross-protected types of HPV 31/45/52 was also lower in the vaccinated group, and the vaccine effectiveness was 67.7%. Furthermore, prevalence of HPV16, 31 and 52 infection rates in the vaccinated group were obviously lower than that in the unvaccinated group, and no one had HPV18 or 45 infection in the vaccinated group. The addition of a cross-protective effect toward HPV types 31/45/52 to HPV types 16/18, which is the direct target of the bivalent HPV vaccine, may possibly prevent around 82% of invasive cervical cancer cases in Japan. With regard to the preventive effect of histological abnormalities, we also reported significant reduction in incidence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN)3 or worse.

Thus, the efficacy of the vaccine has been demonstrated for precancerous disease, and the diverse symptoms after HPV vaccination are likely functional somatic. For the future of Japanese girls, there is a need to resume the proactive recommendation of HPV vaccination and for immediate action to be taken by the Japanese government.

Open access, https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/8/3/362

 

[Arnie Pye]

I can't give a link - I found this info in an article several years ago but have never managed to find it again since, so take this post with a pinch of salt.

I remember reading an article on the web a few years ago discussing the case of a girl who had been given an HPV vaccination and who became seriously ill. (She had previously been completely healthy.) She was treated abominably because she was assumed to be hysterical, attention-seeking, and lying. In the end what helped her was massive doses of thiamine. I know that very low thiamine can lead to very severe illness and permanent brain damage, so I don't know whether the girl recovered completely. What are the chances of a doctor accepting that massive doses of a simple vitamin can help any health condition at all?

 

[rvallee]

are likely

Uhhhh, that's not how science works. There goes that default explanation again. Same as every other old default explanation in thousands of belief systems.

I had a reaction to a vaccine. I think it was the meningitis one, I was maybe about 13. I had the shot and it was one of the last things in that consult. Then waiting for my mom to finish at the reception desk I was standing and suddenly got very hot and just planked out. I also vomited after and after 1-2 hours I think I was fine. A sudden black out at home is also how the worst of it started for me.

Even in the worst case scenario it would not change my mind that the benefits of vaccination far, far outweigh the risks. But to assert that the risks don't exist, especially by being so lazy and dismissive, is very dangerous and exactly how to cement decades of anti-vaccination dogma.

Maybe it played a role in my health problems, I did have significant fatigue most of my teens. Maybe not. Not knowing because no one is looking is absurd. It's precisely this kind of uncertainty that fuels people's distrust, not just because they are afraid for their health, but because trust lost is very hard to regain and there is no better way to lose people's trust by saying complete BS. And this is how an entire field of science loses the trust of people.

 

[Esther12]

It was annoying being just too old for the HPV vaccine when it was brought in here, and the reasons the GP gave to justify it seemed rubbish. And they keep finding out new ways that HPVs can cause problems!