HPV vaccine doesn’t cause chronic fatigue syndrome
- Some girls have reported signs of chronic fatigue syndrome after having the jab
- However, health officials across the world have always strongly denied the link
- And new research on more than 175,000 Norwegian girls shows they are right
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Teenage girls who have the controversial HPV vaccine are not at risk of chronic fatigue syndrome, a major study confirms.
In recent years thousands of adolescents have claimed this is exactly what has happened to them in the weeks following their jab, including two in the last six months that MailOnline has reported on.
In one instance, a 16-year-old girl was left paralysed in three limbs due to the side effects. Another sporty 13-year-old suffered an alleged reaction to the HPV vaccine that left her reliant on a wheelchair.
Health officials across the world have always strongly denied the link, and said there is not enough evidence to even suggest it.
And new research on more than 175,000 Norwegian girls shows they are right – there is no increased risk in those who have the jab.
Health officials across the world have always strongly denied a link between the HPV vaccine and chronic fatigue syndrome, saying there is not enough evidence to even suggest it
Norwegian Institute of Public Health scientists discovered unvaccinated girls face the same risk of developing chronic fatigue syndrome.
Study author Berit Feiring said: ‘This is a major study where we have investigated the association between HPV vaccination and chronic fatigue syndrome.
‘The incidence of this disease has increased in Norway, but we found no association with HPV vaccination.’
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How was the study carried out?
For the study published in the journal Vaccine, researchers tracked the health records of 176,453 girls who had the HPV vaccine.
All were eligible through Norway’s national immunisation programme, administered in three doses over several months, with the first delivered to girls aged 12.
The girls were followed until age 18, with the researchers keeping a record of any new diagnoses of chronic fatigue syndrome.
During the study period, just 407 girls who had been administered the vaccine were diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome.
THE 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL LEFT PARALYSED BY THE HPV VACCINE
A 16-year-old girl was left paralysed in three limbs and in hospital on a drip after having the controversial HPV jab, MailOnline reported last December.
Back in 2014, Ruby Shallom was vaccinated at school to protect her against cervical cancer as part of the routine NHS programme.
But just weeks later, the keen horse-rider and runner started to suffer from stomach spasms, dizziness, pain, headaches and fatigue.
Her muscles became weaker and in May 2016 – two years after she was given the jab – she woke up with no feelings in her legs whatsoever.
She has since lost all sensation in both her legs and one of her arms and is virtually bed bound – unable to eat, lift or dress herself, incontinent and often too weak to lift her head.
Doctors have been unable to diagnose her with anything and have dismissed it as being psychological, refusing to acknowledge any link to the jab.
Her parents spoke out after former glamour model Melinda Messenger said on This Morning that she stopped her 12-year-old daughter, Evie, having the jab over fears of chronic illnesses.
What is the HPV vaccine?
The vaccine is routinely offered to schoolgirls aged 12 and 13 and more than eight million across the UK have been vaccinated in the past eight years.
It protects against HPV which causes cervical cancer – the most common cancer in women under 35 – and is thought to save some 400 lives each year.
As with any vaccine, there is a very small chance of a severe allergic reaction with the HPV jab, according to the Vaccine Knowledge Project at the University of Oxford.
The European Medicines Agency statistics show that up to February 2017, 11,867 reactions to Gardasil have been recorded.
Many report symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, and cases of girls being left paralysed are rare. Fatalities have been seen, reports also showed.
No credible evidence
But authorities around the world agree that the evidence doesn’t support a link between HPV vaccination and chronic illnesses.
The World Health Organisation, the US Centre for Disease Control and the European Medicines Regulator have ‘extensively reviewed the vaccine’s safety’.
They concluded there is ‘no credible evidence of a link between the HPV vaccine and a range of chronic illnesses’.
Earlier this year a spokeswoman for Public Health England and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency renewed their stance.
She said: ‘As with all vaccines, the safety of the HPV vaccine is under constant review. Every report of a suspected side effect is taken seriously.’
Melinda Messenger’s refusal
It comes after Melinda Messenger was accused of scare-mongering by This Morning’s resident doctor after revealing she wouldn’t be giving her teenage daughter the HPV vaccine in December.
A row erupted between the former glamour model, 45, and Dr Chris Steele after she expressed her concern about the link between the jab and a range of chronic illnesses.
Dr Steele attacked her for making her decision to not give Evie, 13, the jab public as others parents could follow suit.
GIRL, 13, LEFT WHEELCHAIR-BOUND FROM THE HPV VACCINE
A nurse claimed her sporty 13-year-old daughter has been left wheelchair-bound after suffering an alleged reaction to the HPV vaccine, MailOnline reported in May.
Heartbroken Anthea Beattie, 49, said Zara is an ’80-year-old in a teenager’s body’ and was convinced her ill health was due to the jab, which protects against cervical cancer.
The sporty schoolgirl, once a promising footballer and netball player, began struggling for breath in a PE lesson in January last year shortly after she had been given the vaccine.
At first the family dismissed Zara’s symptoms as asthma, but her health continued to deteriorate in the weeks that followed.
She suffered palpitations, felt dizzy, weak and tired, and was later diagnosed with PoTS – postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome – which makes her heart race.
Eighteen months on, Zara, of Wigton, Cumbria, feels faint every time she stands, is unable to leave the house without a wheelchair and is home-schooled.
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