Several trending posts circulate false claims about HPV vaccine safety and effectiveness. The posts falsely claim that HPV vaccines don’t prevent cervical cancer and that the vaccines cause autoimmune diseases, miscarriages, birth defects, and deaths in young adults.
Messaging may highlight that vaccine opponents have circulated myths about HPV vaccines since their introduction in 2006. In the intervening years, hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine have been administered globally with no serious safety concerns. Data from multiple countries, including the U.S. and the U.K., show a decrease in cervical cancer rates in HPV-vaccinated populations, putting some countries on track to eliminate the disease.
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