Right. The incidence of blood clots in teens is so low I couldn’t find info on it.
However, they do happen and a lot of girls are getting this vaccine. They’re getting it the same day as the meningitis vaccine and some are getting it the same day they start birth control. (Not by my orders - I’m wary of the meningitis vaccine and don’t like so many variables.)
I’m convinced that what we’re seeing is the “selection error” that seems to happen when any medicine is introduced in large numbers to the widely differing population of the United States. This vaccine is produced using time-tested recombinant DNA and the research has been ongoing for about 8 years, now, so I don’t expect any big surprises from it.
On the other hand, there is the happy surprise - not really unexpected in this type of virus - that the vaccine gives at least partial protection for 8 more strains of the virus.
http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/2007/09/gardisil-protects-against-other-hpv.html
thanks, bfl