Gardasil

[ravens-circle.livejournal.com]

OT? Will delete if not allowed.

I was wondering is there any good anti-Gardasil articles out there? I have to write about it for a class and I would like to hear what people who are against Gardasil have to say.

Thanks.

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[arularia.livejournal.com]

The major complaint that I heard against Gardasil is that it will "encourage young girls/women to become promiscuous." Personally, I think that's a load of horseshit, but you might be able to use it for your paper.

[ravens-circle.livejournal.com]

Yea thats the main thing I hear too and I completely agree about it being horse shit.

[ravens-circle.livejournal.com]

Thanks btw. :D

[arularia.livejournal.com]

Welcome! Hope it helps. :)

[zombiebunney.livejournal.com]

I had a friend blame it for his girlfriends PID - is that possible?

[jennifer0246.livejournal.com]

no. PID is caused by untreated infection, typically bacterial infections like chlamydia or gonorrhea, but sometimes things like bacterial vaginosis as well.

[arularia.livejournal.com]

Most often, PID is caused by gonorrhea or chlamydia although some cases can occur due to recurring BV infection. I did some searching around to try to find *something* that connected either Gardasil or HPV with PID, but I couldn't come up with anything. And every mention I've seen of treating PID involved antibiotics which means that, at least for now, medical professionals have no reason to suspect that pelvic inflammatory disease could be tied to something viral. I also didn't see any mention of PID not responding to antibiotic treatment which, again, points to something bacterial and not viral.

So, in short, I'm not going to give a definite "no" because I'm not a doctor or a researcher, but I think the chances are slim to none. What probably happened in your friends case is that his girlfriend had been developing symptoms of PID for awhile before she got the Gardasil shots. Then, after receiving the vaccination, her PID was diagnosed which led him to blame the vaccine.

This is why it's important to remember that correlation does not mean causation. Two things can happen at the same time without actually be linked together or with one thing causes or being an effect of the other.