study on HPV and Guillain-Barré

[carriebft]

does this strike anyone else as horribly done?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0213172045.htm

There were 36 cases of Guillain-Barré reported after HPV vaccination in the United States from 2006 to 2008. The disorder occurred within six weeks after vaccination in 75 percent of the people. In 20 of the people, or 60 percent, HPV was the only vaccine they received at the time, while 16 people, or 40 percent, received the HPV vaccine along with other vaccines.

"Our results show that Guillain-Barré is not occurring more often after HPV vaccination than it does in the general population," ... "However, the fact that most of these cases occurred within six weeks of vaccination does warrant careful monitoring for any additional cases and continued analysis."

[mamakay]

Hopefully that was just an extremely abbreviated version of all that was studied. I bet the actual methodology included the "background" incidence in people not getting any shots, and that's how they concluded it was probably coincidence.

[carriebft]

I followed the link to the place that gave them the information and I can't seem to find the actual study but Ill keep looking.