[Brandye]

I shall ignore the rants about manufacturer, authorizing agencies, etc, simply because that is mot my domain. Your medical facts have some problems. One woman in about 4500 has experienced side-effects beyond swelling and pain at the site of the injection. Weighed against recent findings that one in four girls between 14-19 tested positive for the four HPV strains that cause cervical cancer, those odds are pretty good. Aluminum is not in the vaccine in any form.

The rates of cervical at an all time low is a result of early detection with PAP smears. The PAP, however, identifies abnormal cervical cells - meaning the woman is already in a pre-cancerous state. The four strains of HPV involved do account for 70% of all cervical cancer. The other thirty percent are not viral in origin but a result of other carcinogens including asbestos in talcum powder.

While cervical cancer shows up later in lidfe, the original infection(s) usually occer while a woman is under thirty. The healthy immune system can defeat the virus in younger woman but by about thirty, the immune system is sufficiently compromised that the HPV are there to stay. And, there are cases of younger women with cervical cancer. The youngest I have found was 27.

You are certainly within your rights to avoid the vaccination for your daughter. And all medications have side-effects. All of life is balancing type I erroras against teype II errors. I happen to fall on the other side of the risk equation from you.