先日紹介したイギリスの13歳の女の子(13-year-old girl’s self-diagnosis might have been a life-saver で検索してください)は、
ガーダシルの後に、自己免疫性自律神経節障害と自己診断し、
シドニー大学の先生にメールして、ロンドンの医師を紹介してもらい、診断が確認されています。
シドニー大学の先生の論文(リンク)の症例も、ガーダシル後に発症した13歳の女の子でしたが、
論文には、ワクチンに関しての記載は全くありませんでした。
自己免疫性自律神経節障害は、中年の男女に発症されることが知られていたようで
シドニー大学の先生の報告は、13歳という小児での発症が新規性があったということでした。
日本では、サーバリックスの後に筋萎縮性側索硬化症を発症して亡くなった女の子がいます。
これも好発年齢は、40代から60代で、男性が女性の2倍ということです。(ウィキペディアから)
サーバリックス後の筋萎縮性側索硬化症は、普通よりも進行が速かったと、神経内科医の先生がおっしゃっていました。
上記のシドニー大学の症例では、自己免疫性自律神経節障害の半分のケースでみつかるという
自己抗体が見つかっていますが、
他の自己抗体も見つかっているようです。
今野先生がどこかで
「副反応は少女たちがもともと持っていたものが出ただけ」とおっしゃたと読みましたが(リンク)、
確かにそうかもしれないケースもありますが
中年になってからでる可能性があったものが
ワクチン後に思春期ででるというのは深刻で重大な問題だと思います。
これを問題だと思わないワクチンを推進している医師の方たちがいるというのも憂慮されることです。
そして、シドニー大学の論文にワクチンのことが書かれていないことも問題です。
さらに言えば、子宮頸がんは、ある程度、リスクグループが特定できます。
網野先生によれば、元吉原の女性たちは、ほとんどが罹患しているようですし、
アメリカでは、リスクの高そうな子だけに推奨している医師もいます。
また、遺伝子の関連も報告されていますし、
ある産婦人科医師がプロジェクトを立ち上げたようですが、その後の更新がないので潰されたのかもしれません。
There is an emerging field within vaccinology called adversomics which acknowledges the fact that adverse reactions after vaccinations may be genetically determined. The last author of many of the papers in this field is none other than Gregory Poland, the editor of the journal Vaccine.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25937189
We have evidence of precisely this in a very recent example: narcolepsy and Pandemrix, one of the pandemic influenza vaccines, in which it was discovered that children with a specific HLA type (DQB1*06:02) elicited a different level of immune response, including autoantibodies which reacted against cells in the CNS responsible for the production of hypocretin.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25501681
There is a suggestion that a similar mechanism is at work in patients who have reported symptoms of dysautonomia after HPV vaccination. There have recently been several girls throughout the world who have tested positive for autoantibodies to the beta 2 adrenergic receptors and the muscarinic 2 receptors and could share a similar HLA type. Letters and reports of this have recently appeared in the scientific literature.
No, there is no current proof that these cases of dysautonomia were caused by the HPV vaccine. However, those of us who work in pharmacovigilance see that these syndromes have been reported more commonly after HPV vaccination than after other vaccines or medications (such as oral contraceptive pills) that are commonly taken in this demographic.
Yes, it is only a hypothesis concerning a potential causal association at the current time. However, our current methodology of safety surveillance relies on both health care providers and patients reporting their suspicions to their regulatory authorities and it is our duty to investigate them. Decisions must then be made to if there is need to further investigate these claims.
The reporting of a similar pattern of symptoms and concerns for dysautonomia have now arisen from a number of geographically distinct locations (the US, Japan, Denmark, Mexico, and Italy). Such observations from different physicians in different locations are considered in the Bradford Hill criteria for causality as "consistency". Such an observation of consistency tends to argue against local reporting bias and could be considered to argue for a growing need to further investigate these reports in a properly designed study.
None of the large safety studies which have been done for HPV vaccines have looked specifically for the outcomes of CRPS or POTS or other forms of dysautonomia. Therefore, using them as references to "debunk" these concerns is simply not possible. Furthermore, syndromes which fall under the umbrella of dysautonomia are largely under-recognised and remain undiagnosed. Therefore, these studies are clearly a challenge.
The future of vaccine safety lies in furthering our understanding of how genetics determines different immune responses and how we might be able to predict which persons will have adverse reactions after vaccination.
Smallpox was eradicated not by vaccinating everyone but rather with a ring vaccination strategy. Identification of those at risk for adverse reactions and adaption of vaccination strategies are possible.
Sustained or even an increased public confidence in vaccines and public health authorities depend on our advancement of vaccine safety science.