Cervical Cancer Prevention Vaccine - Good or Bad?

There has been a lot of controversy behind the new Gardasil vaccine in adoloscent girls and now boys. The pharmaceutical company is recommending this vaccine to be given to girls between age 9-26 yrs of age. They claim that this vaccine prevents from some strains of HPV virus that cause cervical cancer. Well, what about the other strains? There are more than 150 different strains of this vaccine and Garadsil prevents only from the strains types 6, 11, 16 and 18. What about other high risk strains? And , I agree that 16 and 18 are responsible for 70% of cancers but what about the rest 30%? The vaccine is full of side effects and about 6% of the reported side effects were serious and included 32 reports of death. Medically important serious events included the following:Death, Anaphylactic reaction, Deep vein thrombosis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Hypersensitivity, Transverse myelitis (inflammation across the width of the spinal cord), Inflammation of the pancreas, Blood clot in the lung, Convulsion, Hives, Autoimmune disorder.

Now, the choice is yours..
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