r/Vaccine

Hey! I have a question over a concern I heard. It’s really weird tbh.

So, I’m friends with a lot of kids from my school’s seventh graders, for context: I go to art class with like 7 of them, so in turn I’m a big sister to lots of the kids there.

This week, they got their HPV shots. Of course I asked this kid, Mia, why she didn’t get hers, since, they asked me before things like : “did it hurt??” Or “was it worth it?” And I of course told them all to get it if they had a say. And this kid told me she didn’t get it. I asked her if her mum or dad prevented her, and she said (not exactly) this:

“Well, we read online that it’s somehow bad for athletes, and can have bed side effects. And you know I go to world championships, and things like that—“

And I’m really confused on that!

So, have you guys heard of opinions like this before?

Its best to take Gardasil 9 around 11, before you start your sexual life.

It creates sterilizing immunity for 9 strains of HPV, covering around 80% cases, with some hopes for cross-immunity for others.

It was believed that if you do Gardasil 9 in for example your forties, it will at least protect you against the strains you didnt catch yet.

Just today, new study was released. They gave Gardasil 9 to people who already had HPV:

"Following vaccination, HPV positivity for any genotype was significantly lower in the vaccinated group than in the control group (29.3% vs 56.4%, p < .001). Clearance of Gardasil-specific genotypes occurred in 83.5% of vaccinated women compared with 63.6% in the controls. Complete remission was higher in the vaccinated group (70.7% vs 43.6% in the control group). Persistence of identical HPV genotypes was markedly reduced after vaccination (8.5% vs 27.3%).

Conclusions: Nine-valent HPV vaccination significantly enhanced viral clearance and reduced persistence and recurrence of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) among previously unvaccinated HPV-positive women. These findings support extending vaccination recommendations to adult HPV-positive patients as an adjunctive strategy to surgical and cytologic management."

For the future, these is also new 15-valent HPV vaccine being tested in Phase 2: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06756269

Hi, my wife & i are new parents, freaked out by the conspiracies we see online. We both know we want to vaccinate our baby (turning 2 in a few days) and are going to, but we would feel much better about it if we could read studies that show vaccines dont cause/correlate to autism rates

We've seen the 95k+ participants study on MMR, and are already feel better, but the more we have the more we would feel at ease

Also, we are planning on getting vaccines one or 2 at a time to not give our baby so many at once, does the community have any thoughts on this?

We appreciate your feedback & consideration

Hi! I'm a FTM looking for some advice and how others have handled this.

I'm planning to follow the recommended vaccine schedule for my baby, but I'm especially anxious about the gap before the measles (MMR) vaccine.

Since babies don't get it until around 12 months, I'm worried about having them around extended family members who are unvaccinated or not up to date.

For those of you who are pro-vaccine, how did you handle this stage? Did you set boundaries with family, limit visits, ask for certain precautions, or just go with your comfort level?

My husband and I really don't want to hurt anyone's feelings or create tension, but we also feel like just as others have made their own choices about what's best for their kids, we should be able to do the same for ours and have that respected.

My husband is planning to talk to his sister, whose elementary aged kids aren't vaccinated, and his initial instinct is to have zero contact until our baby is able to be vaccinated. I'm just worried about the fallout and how this might affect family dynamics long term, but at the end of the day protecting our baby is the priority.

Would really appreciate hearing what others did!

You can also watch trials on this site with RSS, I am using https://clinicaltrials.gov/apirss?term=vaccine

I was wondering, if someone had the Tdap vaccine as a child and didn’t have any noticeable reaction at the time, and now it’s been about 15–20 years and they’re due for a booster, does that mean they’re unlikely to be allergic now? Or is it still possible to develop an allergy to it later on?

Also, if they did have a allergic reaction, how do medical staff usually handle this? Will they insert something to extract the vaccine liquid out?

Ive also been curious about this for a while. Any help much appreciated

We know that Gardasil 9 helps even to people that already have HPV ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42047045/ )

Now new trial wants to test Intranasal WSK-IM05 Vaccine and Tislelizumab as Neoadjuvant Therapy for HPV + OPSCC

Is the MMR vaccine considered a booster for measles?