Mass psychogenic illness following HPV immunization in Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia (2014): more uncertainty is required
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 H...
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| author | Alvaro J. Idrovo Gabriel D. Pinilla-Monsalve Edgar F. Manrique-Hernández |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-9c6d242622934233b5152c140a7c88ae2023-09-22T08:38:26ZengTaylor & Francis GroupHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics2164-55152164-554X2019-05-011551199120010.1080/21645515.2019.15776761577676Mass psychogenic illness following HPV immunization in Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia (2014): more uncertainty is requiredAlvaro J. Idrovo0Gabriel D. Pinilla-Monsalve1Edgar F. Manrique-Hernández2School of Medicine, Universidad Industrial de SantanderSchool of Medicine, Universidad Industrial de SantanderSchool of Medicine, Universidad Industrial de SantanderThe 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).http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1577676colombiahpv vaccinemass psychogenic illnessmultilevel analysis |
| spellingShingle | Alvaro J. Idrovo Gabriel D. Pinilla-Monsalve Edgar F. Manrique-Hernández Mass psychogenic illness following HPV immunization in Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia (2014): more uncertainty is required Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics colombia hpv vaccine mass psychogenic illness multilevel analysis |
| title | Mass psychogenic illness following HPV immunization in Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia (2014): more uncertainty is required |
| title_full | Mass psychogenic illness following HPV immunization in Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia (2014): more uncertainty is required |
| title_fullStr | Mass psychogenic illness following HPV immunization in Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia (2014): more uncertainty is required |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mass psychogenic illness following HPV immunization in Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia (2014): more uncertainty is required |
| title_short | Mass psychogenic illness following HPV immunization in Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia (2014): more uncertainty is required |
| title_sort | mass psychogenic illness following hpv immunization in carmen de bolivar colombia 2014 more uncertainty is required |
| topic | colombia hpv vaccine mass psychogenic illness multilevel analysis |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1577676 |
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