NewsGuard: Papillomavirus vaccine response

NewsGuard is a website that they say offers "transparent anti-misinformation tools for individuals, businesses and democracies." Every year, perhaps even several times a year, they draw up a sort of report on the websites that, always according to them, propagate fake news, and they do so by building a special file. We have obviously deserved to be on their lists since 2019 and we really like this, we tell you clearly.

They don't always contact us, sometimes they deduce some of our positions from our written articles, but a few days ago we received an email from them asking us for clarifications in reference to an article written in this section. Evaluating the options, we thought it appropriate to complete the information sheet regarding the papillomavirus vaccination, adding our response to Newsguard. We are certain that this will also give you the opportunity to get a clearer idea of ​​the subject, reminding you as always that the choice whether to vaccinate yourself or your children is entirely up to you.

Happy reading.

Thank you Giulia for contacting us, the last time we interacted with one of her colleagues and we confess that we missed this ritual a little. This should be the third time you've taken an interest in us and let's say that the first two times her colleagues looked a bit like flat earthers.

The very first time⁽²⁾ We were asked for information on issues relating to the site and although we had sent you an extensive review in response, the summary we were given on the Corvelva card was quite anemic.

The second time you were probably too busy and added us to a long list of "hoax" sites by reporting one of our articles⁽²⁾ which simply reported the state of the art at the beginning of the pandemic and which had been published to try to shed light on a media chaos that left very little room for certainties on the origins of SARS-CoV-2. On this, to tell the story, let's try to explain our position on the origins of the virus: we are not interested at all, or rather, the issue is completely secondary to the health policies applied in Italy. Here they have taken away their jobs, fathers and mothers of families left at home without pay for months. Here they threw the kids off the buses because they didn't have green certification and they imposed the Green Pass on the homeless who wanted to stay overnight in public dormitories and they did so in northern Italy and in the middle of winter. Here with us for tampon psychosis they gave birth to a woman in a hospital parking lot, a stillborn child. Here, on the one hand, they didn't send a doctor to treat the elderly at home, not even under torture, and on the other, they spent enormous energy on actions such as disinfecting the sand of the beaches with antibacterials, deploying helicopters and drones to track down dangerous citizens who walked alone in middle of nowhere. Here the Government first made television commercials in which they said that the virus would never arrive and it was enough to wash your hands and then used proctology experts to threaten not to give the unvaccinated a break. You see Giulia, the virus we fight is completely independent of SARS-CoV-2 and the news we gave about the origins of the virus always came from mainstream sites or scientific publications.

Now, if you are still reading us, let's come to the new objection you pose to us, already knowing that our answer is more useful for us than for you. You dispute us, correct us if we are wrong, three statements that we can group into the following strands: 

1. HPV vaccines can cause "chronic disease in children and young adults," 
2. including "Guillain-Barré" and
3. “the aluminum adjuvant it contains may be dangerous”.

Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) is a rare autoimmune disease that can follow viral infections and in some cases has been linked to vaccinations and this is scientifically proven by tons of scientific publications and to deny it, forgive us for telling you, it really is by deniers. 

We list a few scientific publications that have addressed the association between HPV vaccination and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and we are sure you will be able to find more:

• Miranda S, Chaignot C. Human papillomavirus vaccination and risk of autoimmune diseases: A large cohort study of over 2 million young girls in France. Vaccines. 2017 Aug 24;35(36):4761-4768.⁽³⁾
• Souayah N, Michas-Martin PA. Guillain–Barré syndrome after Gardasil vaccination: Data from Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System 2006–2009. Vaccines Jan 29, 2011; 29(5):886-9 .⁽⁴⁾
• Frisch M, Besson A, Clemmensen KKB, Valentiner-Branth P, Mølbak K, Hviid A. Quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination in boys and risk of autoimmune diseases, neurological diseases and venous thromboembolism. Int J Epidemiol. 2018;47(2):634-41.⁽⁶⁾
• Skufca J, Ollgren J, Artama M, Ruokokoski E, Nohynek H, Palmu AA. The association of adverse events with bivalent human papilloma virus vaccination: A nationwide register-based cohort study in Finland Vaccine . 2018; 36 (39): 5926-33 .⁽⁶⁾

Regarding the possibility that chronic diseases can develop in children and young adults after HPV vaccination, here too we would like to bring to your attention some scientific articles.
A 2019 article published in Autoimmunity Reviews(7) advanced the hypothesis that sudden cardiac death (SCD), in patients with various heart diseases, is one of the possible adverse reactions to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination.
In December 2017, an article(8) was published in the scientific journal Drug Safety which analyzed the temporal relationship between the administration of the HPV vaccine and the appearance of adverse reactions in young women in Japan. We talked very little about the Japanese situation in our article that you kindly quoted us, but we would like to underline that it was Japan that suspended HPV vaccination for 8 years after detecting a significant increase in adverse reactions, with several lawsuits( 9) promoted by parents of victims of HPV vaccination. The argument in favor of the safety and efficacy of the HPV vaccine was also questioned in an article(10) published in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics in 2017, which shows that one of the flaws in the claimed safety of the HPV vaccine , is that it does not take into account the genetic basis of autoimmune diseases and, we quote, “arguments that do not take this into account cannot ensure vaccine safety”. Question: will you contact the Government of Japan tomorrow asking about the 8-year suspension of vaccination?
We understand very well that large numbers must be observed at the level of public health, but we are not the Ministry of Health and we do not deal with public health. We are the ugly and bad ones who remember the other side of vaccination, bringing official references, such as the fact that starting from January 2023 they have been presented to the American National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program - HRSA (VICP)(11), well 798 claims for Gardasil vaccine, with 22 suspected deaths and 790 suspected serious injuries. 167 of these reports have been compensated, or recognized and indemnified, others remain pending. Question: Will you contact the US government tomorrow asking for clarification regarding these 167 indemnities?

Similar situations, i.e. in which even serious adverse reactions have been detected after HPV vaccinations, we also find them in Australia(12) and many other countries and, above all, always in line with the basic symptomatology that can be collected above all: in pain syndrome regional complex (CRPS), postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and fibromyalgia after HPV vaccination. These are diseases that are often difficult to diagnose and present overlapping clinical characteristics and we cite an article published in 2015 in Clinical Rheumatology,(13) in which, in addition to detecting this type of adverse reaction, it was recommended, we cite, "Doctors should be aware of the possible association between HPV vaccination and the development of these difficult-to-diagnose pain syndromes.” Question: Will you contact the author of the study or all the doctors tomorrow to ask if they are aware of this publication?

On the other hand, regarding the fact that we have mentioned children, as well as young adults, we bring you an article from 2015(14) which documented the first case of lichenoid drug eruption in a child after vaccination against human papillomavirus, recommending that doctors of this possible reaction in order to improve both the diagnostic approach and the therapeutic pathway. Or we can quote an article from 2014(15) in which here too we went to reiterate and recommend the institutions on the fact that, we quote, "Doctors must be aware of a possible bilateral papillitis and uveitis following HPV vaccination" also seen the fact that this rare syndrome is also classified as a possible adverse reaction to HPV vaccination by the WHO. We can cite asthma if you like, with a 2019 article(16) where, we cite, “The findings suggest that human papillomavirus vaccination resulted in an excess of 261.475 cases of asthma, at a direct cost in excess for all life estimated at $42 billion.” Or we can tell you about myasthenia gravis (MG) and how it was related by an article published in 2018 in the BMC Neurology(17) to HPV vaccination due to unexpected abnormal autoimmune responses.
Now that you make us think, in our article we have not even talked about vaccination-induced optic neuritis which, although rare, was commonly found after flu vaccination but in 2018 an article published in Ceresus,(18) presented a case of bilateral optic neuritis isolated and concurrent following the first dose of HPV vaccination in a girl. 

A serious problem that falls directly on the medical profession is that of the underestimation of adverse reactions to any vaccine and, specifically, with regard to the HPV vaccine, an article was published in 2018 in Immunologic Research(19) where a series of suspected adverse reactions were collected related to HPV vaccination and although they were observed in different countries, the symptoms described were very similar to each other: disabling fatigue, headache, widespread pain, fainting, gastrointestinal dysmotility, limb weakness, memory impairment, episodes of impaired awareness and movements abnormal. The article states that autoantibodies are known to be present in a subset of patients with complex regional pain, postural orthostatic tachycardia, small fiber neuropathy, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, and immune-mediated autonomic dysfunction triggered by vaccine can lead to the development of a post-vaccination HPV syndrome in genetically predisposed individuals. On the other hand, the association between fibromyalgia and HPV vaccination had also been discussed in Reumatología Clínica in a 2018 article⁽²⁰⁾ also attempting to provide a model to distinguish post vaccination fibromyalgias in order to provide an adequate diagnostic and therapeutic process.
In 2019 in an article published in Autoimmunity Reviews⁽²¹⁾ instead, the potential problem of adjuvants was addressed, hypothesizing a link between myalgic encephalomyelitis as an adverse effect of vaccinations, in particular those containing aluminum adjuvants.
In two different studies, one from 2012⁽²²⁾ and one from 2014,⁽²³⁾ the problem of the adjuvant of HPV vaccines and how these amorphous nanoparticles of aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulphate (AAHS), linked to viral DNA fragments, can lead to unwanted pathophysiological effects has also been specifically addressed.
Vaccines are injected intramuscularly and the rate at which aluminum migrates from human muscle into the bloodstream is not known. Animal studies suggest that aluminum from vaccines can take anywhere from a couple of months to over a year to enter the bloodstream, due to multiple variables.^(24-25) Furthermore, some studies have shown that aluminum from vaccines is absorbed by immune cells and reaches parts of the body far from the injection site, including the brain.⁽²⁶⁾
The extent of the adverse effects of aluminum in vaccines is not known, as safety studies have not been conducted comparing a population vaccinated with aluminum-containing vaccines with a population not vaccinated with such vaccines.

You see Giulia, without further boring you with dozens and dozens of other scientific publications, we would like to try to suggest a more secular approach to the vaccination issue, not so much because we are interested in NewsGuard telling us that we are good, also because let's face it, you have no power whatsoever , but precisely because in addition to scientific publications there are people. The theme of adverse reactions to HPV vaccination, and not only that, did not arise on PubMed or even on Corvelva; it arises from the word of mouth of parents, thousands, who after the vaccination complained of even serious and similar ailments and the medical institutions responsible for remedying these problems have disappeared in almost all cases. If there were full awareness of vaccine damage, in a regime of freedom of therapeutic choice, our existence would become superfluous and therefore if your aim is to contrast realities like ours, we urge you to focus on bringing light to the damage from vaccine and to advocate freedom of choice, in this way you would inexorably lead us to disappear. 

We conclude with only a very small nod to the technical data sheet of the Gardasil 9 vaccine which can be downloaded from the AIFA website⁽²⁷⁾: “As with other vaccines, side effects have been reported during widespread use of the vaccine and include: muscle weakness, abnormal sensations, tingling in the arms, legs and upper body or confusion Guillain Barre, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis); bleeding or bruising more easily than normal and skin infection at the injection site.”

Wishing you a good day, obviously guaranteeing your privacy, we inform you that we will publish this answer in the Diseases & Vaccines section of our site in order to be totally transparent to everyone. 

Corvelva staff