HPV Vaccine...Is it Safe?

HPV Vaccine Blamed for Teen's Paralysis

A month after 13 year old Jenny Tetlock was vaccinated against the HPV virus, she missed the lowest hurdle in gym class. It was the first sign of a degenerative muscle disease that 15 months later left her nearly completely paralyzed.

Her father, Philip Tetlock, a professor at UC-Berkeley, has embarked on an odyssey to find out whether the vaccine, Gardasil, is to blame.

Tetlock is not the only one concerned. The public watchdog group Judicial Watch has been periodically obtaining adverse event reports on Gardasil from the FDA. 10 deaths have been linked to Gardasil since September 2007, and there have been 140 reports so far this year of serious side effects such as miscarriage and Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Sources:
U.S. News and World Report July 2, 2008
A Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA’s HPV Vaccine Records June 30, 2008

And, did you know that Gardasil only protects against 4 types of HPV out of the 100 strands. So if you come into contact with the other 96 strands, the vaccination won't help you. And, it is not a vaccination against cervical cancer...to market it in that way is a total lie. It is a vaccination against 4 strains of an STD: Human Papilloma Virus. This virus may or may not cause cervical cancer depending on your body. Pharmacuetical Companies need to get it together and tell consumers the whole truth.