10/25/16
Dr. Paul Offit responded to an article recently published by Medscape that must have been misrepresenting HPV Vaccine data. The original article “Chronic Symptoms After HPV Vaccine: Part of a Wider Syndrome?” is what Dr. Offit was referring to. His response references studies and data with the correct conclusion that “HPV vaccine has been found not to cause chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia” and that “when these symptoms do occur, they occur at the same rate in both vaccinated and unvaccinated groups.”
Other HPV vaccine facts Dr. Offit highlighted are below:
“Every year in this country, the HPV-9 [vaccine] would prevent about 29,000 cases of cancer—two thirds in girls, about one third in boys—and it would prevent about 4800 deaths.[6] So when only 40% of girls and 21% of boys are getting this vaccine, we can assume that about 2000 children every year in this country are going to become adults who die, needlessly, from this infection.” READ more