Mass psychogenic illness following HPV immunization in Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia (2014): more uncertainty is required
| Autor: | Alvaro J. Idrovo, Gabriel D. Pinilla-Monsalve, Edgar F. Manrique-Hernández |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, Vol 15, Iss 5, Pp 1199-1200 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2164-5515 2164-554X 21645515 24262293 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/21645515.2019.1577676 |
| Popis: | The interesting article by Simas et. al. describes an outbreak case with over 600 individuals who exhibited neurological symptoms and which occurred in a town located at the northern region of Colombia in 2014. The community associated this event to the second-dose vaccination campaign against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and scientists defined it as a mass psychogenic illness. Unfortunately, the authors did not include in their article important findings related to a case-control study (with n = 137 and n = 437, respectively), conducted by the Colombian government. After inquiring “have you ever received vaccination against human papillomavirus?”, a significant association with the vaccine was identified (adjusted OR: 10.8, 95% CI: 1.4–80.2). |
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