> To clarify, several cancers can be caused by infectious entities; cervical cancer, for example, is the work of HPV, a sexually transmitted virus.
Oddly, the main panic we see around HPV is anti-vaxxers going after the Gardasil vaccine.
I don't know much about anti vaxers. I just remember something about how it causes autism (they think). And often diagnosis is around the time early childhood vaxination is done.
Sonmy question is what does a late child vax for HPV do (in their words).
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/jan/11/why-is-...
For the family of that girl and her close circle that is the image they have of the vaccine. I'm not saying the vaccine cause paralisis. I'm saying that for her it was the cause, they still don't have another explanation (no gillan-barre, nor wierd infection). Thats why in Colombia just a few people will allow to get that vaccine, out there you will find few cases like the one of my friend, but enough to make most woman reject its aplication.
Its just a view from that population perspective and why it impacts on the acceptance of the drug.
https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/692
> “Our results show that Guillain-Barré is not occurring more often after HPV vaccination than it does in the general population.”
Side note: Even if the vaccination caused all 36 cases described in a two-year period, and even if that were elevated from the normal incidence in the unvaccinated population, HPV causes thousands of deaths annually from cervical cancer. Public health should be a matter of statistics, not anecdotes.
Most probable cause? That’s a bit of hyperbole without extraordinary evidence.