The Principle of Unintended Consequences
There are potential unknown hazards to worry about. Gardasil protects against the most common but also the least dangerous forms of cancer-causing human papillomavirus. What if the HPV vaccine creates an environment in which more virulent forms of HPV, against which the vaccine provides no protection, thrive? There is no scientific evidence to support such a claim, but antibiotic resistant “superbugs” provide a case in point.
Finally, Gardasil was primarily tested on adult women, making it possible that there are unknown risks associated with vaccinating younger girls. The possibility isn't as far-fetched as one might think. In 1976, the swine flu vaccine was administered on a large scale, arguably without sufficient testing. The vaccine administered by government mandate seriously injured or killed hundreds. It turned out that the vaccine had a 5 percent fatality rate and a 10 percent rate of permanent paralysis. Yet, among the millions of people who were never vaccinated, there was only one death that could be definitively traced to the flu itself.
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Yes, viruses can evolve to be resistent to antibiotics, but they do not evolve to be resistent to vaccines! To state such an idea just proves your ignorance. HPV really IS a big problem, my little sister and one of my good friends both suffer from HPV, my sister has cervical cancer because of it. When my daughters are older (they are babies now) I will vaccincate them against HPV just as I vaccinate them against other serious diseases. Why not prevent pain and suffering when we can?
The article that you provided a link to is certainly worth reading. However, the picture is gives is far more complex than a simple case of a medical fiasco. Here is what the article says:
"Thus was born what would become known to some medical historians as a fiasco and to others as perhaps the finest hour of America's public health bureaucracy."
Some medical interventions have their own risks. The original vaccine against smallpox had a quite appreciable death rate. However, most people at the time thought they would be better to take their chances with a vaccine that had a 1% death rate than with smallpox, which had a death rate of 1 in 4.
If the Gardasil vaccine had serious side effects they would already have shown up. The fact that they have not suggests that it is reasonably safe.
M. Glass