I'm writing from the USA. Dr Diane Harper, Dartmouth Medical School, who worked with the vaccine suggested that families with a history of auto immune disease delay or avoid getting the vaccine until further study.

If I had known this information, maybe my daughter would NOT have been vaccinated at that time. But she Has received the vaccine and she HAS developed severe disabling arthritis symptoms that are puzzling to the rheumatologist.

Ireland may be hesitating to begin the vaccine for economic reasons. This may prove to be a blessing. For the time that passes, may allow more study and experience for this Gardasil vaccine.

This vaccine may work well for many--even most--people, but there ARE concerns and it is stupid to ignore them. I will not get it for my daughters because of the clearly heightened risk of autoimmune disease in susceptible individuals and because of the very real risk of replacement diseases arising.

At the very least parents should insist that their children have a pregnancy test, if appropriate, and an HPV test prior to getting shots, and should think hard about their family history with autoimmune disease. All parents want to protect their children, but they cannot do that well unless they are informed properly.

Just another useless killer vaccine. 'Linked' to 27 deaths in the USA, and there isn't one shred of evidence, from more than one direction, it will prevent one case of cancer. And numerous cases of genital warts, one of the things it is meant to protect against! All at taxpayers expense, plus the payouts for death and injuries. Brought to us by the makers of the autism causing MMR vaccine, and Vioxx (27,000 heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths)!

Scaremongering?

As seen in the above post, I'm just telling my daughter's story. She took the vaccine, she got sick. Maybe she is 1 in a 100,000 or 1 in 200,000 experiencing this autoimmune response, but it is happening.

I'm motivated to tell this story, because none of us should have to watch our children suffer.

I question the MOTIVATION of those who refuse to doubt there could be a relationship between Gardasil and these injuries. Open your mind.

The Jade Goody story is tragic. Cervical cancer kills. A foolproof, bulletproof, hands down fully guaranteed solution may not be present in the vaccine, Gardasil.

Scaremongering? I'd say the 'One Less' aggressive advertising campaign that sold my daughter on getting the vaccine is more in line with scaremongering.

It isn't a question of denial that vaccines may have side effects, it is a question of benefit versus risk. Everything we do in life has risks, such as eating, walking down the road, playing a game of football. Because someone might rarely experience harm from these activities, we do not seek to dissuade anyone else from ever doing them.

In the case of vaccines, there are proven benefits, and these vastly outweigh the proven harms. So individuals (and society) must decide what is in their best interests. That is why my son will continue to play football in the park, and why my daughter will get HPV vaccine, so she doesn't end up like Jade Goody.

I cannot believe a doctor accuses someone who informs others about the risks of a disease that kills nearly one woman in a hundred in the UK of "scaremongering".

Google for "UK Cervical Cancer mortality statistics" and look at this Cancer Research UK site for more information. (Death rate = 949 per 100,000 in 2006).