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[joreth]

As most of my readers should, by now, know, I'm quite the champion for the the HPV vaccination and vaccinations in general. So I often get a lot of cranks spreading fear and false rumors as to the dangers of vaccines. Of course there are some dangers with vaccines, the medical community and its champions have never denied that. But the risk/reward ratio makes them, not only worth the risk, but our duty as members of a society to accept the risk because the risk is actually very minimal. You're more likely to get struck by lightning on the way to the vaccination clinic than to die or contract autism from a vaccine.

So, now that other countries are introducing the HPV vaccines into their societies, some of which are making them mandatory, these kinds of claims are getting picked up all over the place. Which is annoying, but actually a good thing. Because it means that other countries, totally independent of the U.S. and totally independent of Big Pharma are having to investigate.

And guess what? They're all showing that the vaccines are not some scary evil plot by Big Pharma to kill off people (frankly, even if it was a plot to kill off young girls, it's a pretty sucky plot - even worse than the plot to kill Austin Powers by leaving him in a room with evil sea bass with lasers strapped to their heads), nor is it simple incompetence making an unsafe product in the rush to make a profit.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24748394-23289,00.html In Australia, "Only three of the 25 evaluated schoolgirls had probable hypersensitivity to the quadrivalent human papilloma virus vaccine after 380,000 doses had been administered in schools," and such reactions were typical during any mass vaccination effort, regardless of what was being injected. "One study estimated that if 80 per cent of eligible US adolescent females were to receive a saline injection ... three per 100,000 adolescents would require emergency care for asthma or allergy within 24 hours of vaccination," the paper says.

Now, let's just say that all 25 girls who were suspected of being "hypersensitive" actually did have allergic reactions.  That's 25 girls out of 380,000.  Three hundred and eighty THOUSAND.  That's .00066% of girls.  In my last rant against the conspiracy theorists, I quoted some facts from the U.S. study, which estimated a .00022% chance of death with .075% experiencing minor side effects common with receiving a shot no matter what's in it.

As an evil plot, it's probably the lamest plot ever concieved.  As a study of incompetence, it royally fails on the dumbass scale.  The HPV vaccine is about as safe as vaccines can get, with risk levels lower than simply living, and the benefit is preventing cancer and all studies so far, no matter who conducts them, are pointing in this direction.