MedPage Today : declared in HPV Vaccine Appears Safe in Early Pregnancy

As the authors suggested, limited data have accumulated regarding the safety of the quadrivalent HPV vaccine during pregnancy. "Our results also confirm and considerably expand on results from previous studies of the quadrivalent HPV vaccine." Nonsignificant hazard ratios emerged from unadjusted analyses of spontaneous abortion (HR 0.93, 95% CI 0.60-1.44), small for gestational age (HR 0.98, 95% CI 0.83-1.14), and still birth (HR 1.90, 95% CI 0.48-7.61). Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) during pregnancy did not increase the risk of maternal or fetal complications, a retrospective, matched, case-control study showed. Given the global recommendation for vaccination of girls and women, ages 9 to 26 years, against HPV, some women inevitably will have inadvertent exposure to the vaccine during early pregnancy.

HPV Vaccine Inoculation Rates Low Despite Success At Preventing Virus-Related Cancers And Warts

All prevent the HPV strains linked to about 70 percent of cervical cancers, and Gardasil prevents the viruses that cause about 90 percent of genital warts cases. Some believe its reputation as an STD vaccine does little to boost rates as parents hesitate to validate teen sex. Read: Birth Control Could Lower Risk For Certain Cancers, Protect Women Up To 30 Years After Taking Pill, Study SaysCurrently, the FDA-approved vaccines include Gardasil, Gardasil 9 and Cervarix. According to a 2015 study, almost 25,000 HPV-related cancers, including anal, cervical and penile, could be reduced each year by vaccinating. A catchall for about 200 related viruses, the most worrisome strains are those causing genital warts and cervical Cancer.


But just 30 percent of girls and 25 percent of boys at that age had received all three doses of the HPV vaccine. In contrast to other vaccines, however, the HPV vaccine is only required in a few states for secondary school students. "This vaccine should have been introduced as a vaccine that will prevent cancer, not sexually transmitted infections," Meissner says. Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended reducing the number of HPV vaccine shots from three to two for girls and boys between the ages of 9 and 14. The focus should not have been on sexually transmitted infections, some say.


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