2009 VAERS Blog Entries

August 2009: HPV and Flu #1

• Seasonal Flu vaccine: will 2009 be the worst year for Flu-related VAERS events?
• HPV vaccine: appears in 11% of VAERS events reported this month.

September 2009: HPV and Flu #2

• Seasonal Flu vaccine: predicting a bad year as the number of related reports in September takes off.

October 2009: HPV and Flu #3

• Seasonal Flu vaccine: five times more related VAERS reports this September compared to last September.
• H1N1 vaccine: VAERS reports rising steadily.
• HPV vaccine: showing 57 deaths associated with Gardasil; first death report associated with Cervarix.

November 2009: HPV and Flu #4

• Flu vaccine: when considering both Seasonal and H1N1 Flu, this year has the most related VAERS reports, by a large margin.
• HPV vaccine: related VAERS reports continue to grow and and now include 61 deaths.

December 2009: HPV vs. Flu adverse event rates

• Which vaccine has a higher chance of resulting in a VAERS report being filed, H1N1 Flu or HPV?
• It's HPV by a factor of 10!