In Japan, coverage rates for the HPV vaccine have plummeted from 70 percent in 2013 to less than 1 percent today. This happened after a preliminary (and allegedly fraudulent) mouse study showing the vaccine caused brain damage was spread by the media, along with unconfirmed video reports of girls in wheelchairs and having seizures after getting immunized.
Anti-vaccine groups also blamed the shot for causing chronic pain and heart and neurological troubles. The government didn’t help matters when it decided to suspend proactive recommendations for HPV vaccines, despite finding no evidence to support the claims parents and anti-vaccine groups were making. [...]
There’s no good data suggesting there are significant safety concerns caused by the HPV vaccine. The largest-ever overview of all the available safety data on the vaccine from 2006 to 2015, published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, as well as another BMJ study involving about a million girls in Denmark and Sweden, found there was no association between the vaccine and a range of harms, including autoimmune, neurological, and cardiovascular adverse events. The European Medicines Agency also recently looked at the scientific evidence and found no link between the vaccine and the pain and other symptoms people are attributing to it. [...]
“Each year in Japan, 27,000 to 28,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and around 3,000 die,” she said. “HPV vaccines can prevent this disease. Yet because of the campaigners' videos and the government's decision to suspend recommending the vaccine, many mothers and children do not know this vaccine is safe. The long-term impact will be preventable suffering and death.”
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