No Link Between Gardasil, Adverse Events, CDC Says
[From the National Partnership for Women and Families]
No Link Between Gardasil, Adverse Events, CDC Says
[Oct. 23, 2008]
CDC officials on Wednesday said a federal study of reported deaths and serious adverse effects in girls and women who received Merck’s human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil shows that the events likely are not related to the vaccine, the Wall Street Journal reports. Gardasil is designed to protect against four strains of HPV, two of which account for about 70% of cervical cancer cases, the Journal reports. The study — which is the first post-market safety study of Gardasil since the vaccine was approved in June 2006 — was based on 375,000 doses of the vaccine administered from August 2006 to July 2008 to patients ages 9 to 26. The data were collected through CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink program, which compiles data from several managed care organizations. Researchers compared rates of possi
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