Because the evidence is consistently ignored over and over and over and over. Then the studies which dismiss evidence are used as proof they are safe.
Oh, and those other causes - you mean things like "stress" which are cited over and over by medical researchers as the cause for Graves' Disease. Stress?!? Let's actually look at the pathology and not blame all disease that mainly impact women on their mental health.
Two people in the Phase 3 test for the Gardasil HPV vaccine also developed transverse myelitis, including a young man who ultimately killed himself rather than living with paralysis.
The way these studies are set-up, the burden of proof to show something like transverse myelitis was caused by the vaccine is next to impossible. The only way it will be proved is shear volume and attention from the media. Maybe that finally happens now.
Yeah sure, I meant women stress/mental health when I was actually rebuking this earlier when it was mentioned by another poster.
Or you know, I could mean those:
Transverse myelitis - Symptoms and causes
Viral, bacterial and fungal infections affecting the spinal cord may cause transverse myelitis. In most cases, the inflammatory disorder appears after recovery from the infection.
Viruses associated with transverse myelitis are:
Other viruses may trigger an autoimmune reaction without directly infecting the spinal cord.
- Herpes viruses, including the one that causes shingles and chickenpox (zoster)
- Cytomegalovirus
- Epstein-Barr
- HIV
- Enteroviruses such as poliovirus and coxsackievirus
- West Nile
- Echovirus
- Zika
- Influenza
- Hepatitis B
- Mumps, measles and rubella
Bacterial infections that are associated with transverse myelitis include:
Bacterial skin infections, gastroenteritis and certain types of bacterial pneumonia also may cause transverse myelitis.
- Lyme disease
- Syphilis
- Tuberculosis
- Actinomyces
- Pertussis
- Tetanus
- Diphtheria
Rarely, parasites and fungal infections may infect the spinal cord.
There are a number of inflammatory conditions that appear to cause the disorder:
- Multiple sclerosis is a disorder in which the immune system destroys myelin surrounding nerves in your spinal cord and brain. Transverse myelitis can be the first sign of multiple sclerosis or represent a relapse. Transverse myelitis as a sign of multiple sclerosis usually causes symptoms on only one side of your body.
- Neuromyelitis optica (Devic's disease) is a condition that causes inflammation and myelin loss around the spinal cord and the nerve in your eye that transmits information to your brain. Transverse myelitis associated with neuromyelitis optica usually affects both sides of your body.
In addition to transverse myelitis, you may experience symptoms of damage to myelin of the optic nerve, including pain in the eye with movement and temporary vision loss. This can happen with or separately from transverse myelitis symptoms. However, some people with neuromyelitis optica don't experience eye-related problems and might have only recurrent episodes of transverse myelitis.- Autoimmune disorders probably contribute to transverse myelitis in some people. These disorders include lupus, which can affect multiple body systems, and Sjogren's syndrome, which causes severe dryness of the mouth and eyes.
Transverse myelitis associated with an autoimmune disorder may be a warning sign of neuromyelitis optica. Neuromyelitis optica occurs more frequently in people with other autoimmune diseases.- Sarcoidosis is a condition that leads to inflammation in many areas of the body, including the spinal cord and optic nerve. It may mimic neuromyelitis optica, but typically sarcoidosis symptoms develop more slowly. The cause of sarcoidosis isn't understood.
Before you accuse me of lying by omission, they also mention vaccines:
- Vaccinations for infectious diseases have occasionally been associated as a possible trigger. However, at this time the association is not strong enough to warrant limiting any vaccine.
Here is another source for you:
Transverse Myelitis, Possible Adverse Reaction to COVID-19 Vaccine, Explained
What causes transverse myelitis?
A large proportion — how large varies with the study — of cases are associated with central nervous system autoimmune disorders, such as multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, and other autoimmune disorders, such as sarcoidosis and Sjögren syndrome. In fact, transverse myelitis can be the first demyelinating event that precedes full-blown multiple sclerosis.
Another large fraction of cases — as large as two thirds in some studies — of transverse myelitis cases are labeled idiopathic, meaning that the cause is uncertain. But that is a bit of a misnomer because a large proportion of those idiopathic cases occur after an illness or infection of some kind has occurred. “Nevertheless, these are considered idiopathic because the causative nature of the infection is seldom proven,” says the Wolters Kluwer UpToDate article on transverse myelitis. The thinking is that an infection can trigger an aberrant, unregulated immune response that turns on the body — and, in this case, the spinal cord — instead of taking on the invasive organism.
Some of the infectious agents that have been linked to the development of transverse myelitis include the enteroviruses, the West Nile virus, and the Zika virus. Transverse myelitis can also be a complication of Lyme disease, which is typically caused by bacterium Borrelia burgdorfer
There have been several case reports suggesting that COVID-19 itself could trigger transverse myelitis. For example, in a letter published in May in the Journal of Neurology, German clinicians described the case of a 60-year-old man who recovered quickly from COVID-19 pneumonia but then developed symptoms suggestive of transverse myelitis three days after he was discharged.
Do other vaccines cause transverse myelitis?
There are reports of instances when getting a vaccine appeared to lead to transverse myelitis. But Roger Baxter of the Northern California Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland, California, and his colleagues used the Vaccine Safety Database to look at the question more systematically. Among 64 million vaccine doses, they found 7 cases of transverse myelitis and no statistically valid association between those cases and prior vaccination. They reported the results of their study in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases in 2016. in the Vaccine Safety Database to look at the question more systematically.
In this meta-analysis, they found 37 cases in 39 years of transversive myelitis where vaccination is associated to the disease: Transverse myelitis and vaccines: a multi-analysis - PubMed
A systematic review of PubMed, EMBASE and DynaMed for all English-language journals published between 1970 and 2009 was preformed, utilizing the key words transverse myelitis, myelitis, vaccines, post-vaccination, vaccination and autoimmunity. We have disclosed 37 reported cases of transverse myelitis associated with different vaccines including those against hepatitis B virus, measles-mumps-rubella, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and others, given to infants, children and adults. In most of these reported cases the temporal association was between several days and 3 months, although a longer time frame of up to several years was also suggested.
Transversive myeletis is so rare as a side-effect that refusing a vaccine for it would be the equivalent of refusing a flu vaccine because someone had a reaction due to an undiagnosed egg allergy.
I do agree more research should be done on the subject but academic research funding mostly goes to hot subject and even within those, only on hot sub-topics. This is the main problem with today's science, everyone work on the same disease and the same proteins. Guys like SGC are trying to reverse that trend, but they are just one organisation.