CDC does not do vaccine approval. That is the province of the FDA. Its statement on the vaccine can be found at http://www.fda.gov/cber/products/hpvmer060806qa.htm. It is highly unlikely that anyone will get a tumor from it as it is a typical antiviral vaccine that only includes proteins from the surface of the HPV strains.
It was tested on 20,000+ people in stage II trials. You have to get the vaccine before you get the virus to be sure of avoiding the disease. More information is available at http://ott.od.nih.gov/current_issues/issues-ended-09-18-2006.html
It is expensive and takes three jabs spaced over 6 months. Which means that requiring it may be silly. Let free people make their own decisions.
HPV virus is the most common STD. A girl's future husband may have it and not know it. If one wants to vastly lower one's daughter's risk of cervical cancer and genital warts, then why not?
And no, I don't work for a drug company.
See this link for reported side effects.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1778223/posts?page=70#70
$150 per pop cost to the doc times 3 times = $450 + office visit cost x 3 times = ?. I've got a question for everybody. With all these "cost saving measures" by the insurance companies, has anybody's insurance rate gone down? Or even maintained?
If one wants to vastly lower one's daughter's risk of cervical cancer and genital warts, then why not?
Because all vaccines and medications have side effects, and the potential for side effects should be weighed against the chance of contracting a disease, and also weighed against the potential severity of the disease itself. This one obviously has a pretty severe potential for disease, but the side effects can be pretty severe, too.
For example:
"Syncopal Episodes and Seizures. One-quarter of all reports filed after GARDASIL vaccination were for neurologic adverse events including loss of consciousness, syncope, syncopal events and seizures. An additional five reports included symptoms of dizziness and feeling faint.
Syncope is defined as a temporary suspension of consciousness due to generalized cerebral ischemia (inadequate blood flow and lack of oxygen). The reports of syncopal episodes and their descriptions are remarkable. A physician from Washington State reported that in one morning, three patients experienced syncopal episodes. On August 8th another physician's office reported that two patients experienced syncopal episodes on the same day."
Those are pretty bad side effects. Statistically speaking, they don't happen in alot of cases but they do happen.