I’m not sure, why on earth people are expecting this to cause things twenty years down the road. When you get a shot of penicillin does that do something in twenty years? Can you think of a single medical procedure, barring major surgery that involves the removal of an organ, that is fine for two decades and then creates a major problem? More importantly, do you know of any vaccine that does such a thing? There isn’t one. They don’t work that way. If there were some major physiological problem cropping up, in 15 million vaccines over six years, we would have seen -something-. These things just don’t pop up out of the blue for no good reason.

And do remember, this vaccine doesn’t ‘sit’ in your system for twenty years. It’s gone in a matter of hours. What stays with you are your immune B-Cells and T-Cells. Just like -every- other infection on earth.

You know what’s in this vaccine? Recombinant HPV protein. Basically they grew just the outside of HPV in a test tube, mixed it up with some water, adjutants and preservatives to keep mold from growing in it. That recombinant protein? it’s -exactly- the same as HPV. Basically you are tricking your immune system into thinking you have been attacked by HPV, when in fact there’s no DNA behind it and it’s harmless. Like target practice with paper cutouts. But when you do encounter the real HPV, your immune system knows exactly what it looks like. It has CD8 T-Cells and antibodies all ready to go to wipe the virus out, rather than giving it two weeks to get a foothold before rolling out the big guns.

There’s a massive amount of fearmongering about this vaccine. Most of it comes from the religious right, and fundamentalist christian organizations who don’t want to see a vaccine for an STD out. People being able to have sex without horrible, crippling consequences doesn’t fit well with their religious view of sexual behavior. In short, they don’t care about your health, they’re interested in pressing their cultural view. They’ve distorted data into essentially libelous falsitudes which will compromise the health of I don’t even want to think how many women.

Beyond that, our friends the anti-vaccine whackjobs have picked up on this and started screaming. Using the exact same data that the religious whackjobs came up with, they’re running around screaming conspiracy and murder and all the like. Ask them when the last time they saw a rubella baby or someone with polio was. Really. These people have zero credibility.

The fact is, thousands of young otherwise healthy women die each year from cervical cancer. Thousands more get full hysterectomies and some of the most brutal chemotherapy we’ve got. Tens of thousands get other gynecological problems caused by the virus. God knows how many more get warts from two of the strains in here. And half the people in urban areas are infected with at least one of the HPV strains.

Oh yeah, and those ‘hundreds and hundreds of HPV strains’? Most of them are harmless. Many of them don’t cause warts. There’s a handful of nasty ones. The vaccine hits the 4 that cause 70% of cervical cancer, and 90%+ of actual warts. Essentially all the rest do less damage than a weak head cold.

there are hundreds of strands of HPV and the vaccine only prevents four…maybe.

http://www.thinktwice.org
It will list the horror stories and side effects.

Nobody knows the long term effects of Gardasil because it’s only been in use for 2 years. We do know the short term effects though, and many people have been injured, and some have even died from it.