How Safe is the HPV vaccine? - Information Is Beautiful
Given the amount of media fuss about the cervical cancer vaccine recently, particularly in the UK, this is very timely. And quite beautifully presented. The most striking point is the difference between the odds of dying after the vaccine (15,200,000:1) and dying in a road accident the year after the vaccine (a mere 10,000:1). Striking because the newspaper inches given to each of these causes of death is pretty much the reverse…