Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 December 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Gardasil Vaccine (HPV) and Meningococcal Group B Vaccine: Discussion

10:10 am

Ms Jacqueline Hogan:

He said that the vast majority of women clear through their own immunological system, that about 1% or so remain with persistent infection and that these are the ones at risk from cervical cancer. The HPV vaccine targets just two elements of the virus, 16 and 18. There are 13 others that it does not target. Maybe some of the ones referred to by Professor Crown - the cervical cancer - are not even the 16 and the 18 because there are other viruses that cause cervical cancer but this vaccine only addresses two of them. With the permission of the committee I wish to read from a very important research paper by Lucija Tomljenovic and Christopher A. Shaw, entitled "Death after Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination: Causal or Coincidental?":


Background:The proper understanding of a true risk from vaccines is crucial for avoiding unnecessary adverse reactions (ADRs). However, to this date no solid tests or criteria have been established to determine whether adverse events are causally linked to vaccinations.
Objectives:This research was carried out to determine whether or not some serious autoimmune and neurological ADRs following HPV vaccination are causal or merely coincidental and to validate a biomarker-based immunohistochemical (IHC) protocol for assessing causality in case of vaccination-suspected serious adverse neurological outcomes.

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