Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ceejayoz 2501 days ago
There are a handful of cases of Guillain–Barré annually that coincide with the HPV vaccine administration. Flu vaccine is known to cause the same thing in rare cases, as well. But...

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.