The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) requires health care providers to report adverse events (possible side effects) that occur following vaccination, so the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in 1990. VAERS is a national passive reporting system that accepts reports from the public on adverse events associated with vaccines licensed in the United States.
Girls and women who receive the Gardasil vaccine to prevent cervical cancer may be at increased risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare but serious disorder of the nervous system, in the first six weeks, especially the first two weeks, after vaccination. The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.
Cervical Cancer Statistics- Cervical cancer used to be the leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. However, in the past 40 years, the number of cases of cervical cancer and the number of deaths from cervical cancer have decreased significantly. This decline largely is the result of many women getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer
According to Merck, their HPV vaccine, Gardasil has proved 90% effective in preventing the uncomfortable affliction known as genital warts in men. They plan to present the results of a recent study at a European medical conference later today. It is their hope that the results of this study will support their case with the FDA. They have requested approval to market Gardasil to boys as a way to prevent genital warts, but as of yet the FDA has not moved on a reply.
FDA Consumer Update addressing recent, questions about the safety of Gardasil, a HPV-vaccine that prevents infection with types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause most cases of cervical cancer and genital warts, and some vulvar and vaginal cancers.
About a month after being vaccinated against the cervical cancer-causing HPV virus, 13-year-old Jenny Tetlock missed the lowest hurdle in gym class, the first hint of the degenerative muscle disease that, 15 months later, has left the previously healthy teenager nearly completely paralyzed. Did the vaccine, Gardasil, cause her condition? Her father, Philip Tetlock, a psychology professor at UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, has embarked on an odyssey to find out whether the vaccine or random coincidence is to blame.
National Vaccine Information Center Criticizes FDA for Fast Tracking Licensure NVIC Press Release June 27, 2006 MERCK’S GARDASIL VACCINE NOT PROVEN SAFE FOR LITTLE GIRLS National Vaccine Information Center Criticizes FDA for Fast Tracking Licensure Washington, D.C. – The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) [...]
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