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Originally Posted by jinx
Agreed.
I think it's important to note though, that as well as adverse health events associated with the vaccine, it also has limitations which aren't mentioned in the advertisements. There are 15+ strains of hpv that are considered oncogentic - Gardasil contains recombinant examples of 2 of them (the ones that may cause 50% or more cervical cancers).
Regular pap smears, hpv testing, and especially condoms are still imperative - vaccinated or not.
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No doubt. But from my readings it was with HPV types 16, 18, 6, 11 and HPV types 16 and 18 currently cause about 70% of cervical cancer cases. HPV types 6 and 11 cause about 90% of genital warts cases. To me that is a pretty big deal and leaves only a chance that you will get one of the remaining 30% that are not covered by the vaccine and only 10% of HPV that causes genital warts, which I see on people all the time. And they are quite disruptive, yet highly contagious. I guess if they ever get a vaccine for Genital Herpes I would encourage them to get that since that is an even more common type of infection.