[skeeter]

In May 2007, the public interest group Judicial Watch released documents obtained from the FDA, under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, detailing 1,637 reports of adverse reactions to Gardasil. Three deaths were related to the vaccine.

One physician's assistant reported that a female patient "died of a blood clot three hours after getting the Gardasil vaccine." Two other reports, on girls 12 and 19, reported deaths relating to heart problems and/or blood clotting.

Of the 1,637 adverse reactions to Gardasil reported to the FDA since the drug was on the market, there were 371 serious reactions. Of the 42 women who received the vaccine while pregnant, 18 experienced side effects ranging from spontaneous abortion to fetal abnormalities.

[CA Conservative]

Those are sad, but correlation is not causation. Is there any evidence that Gardasil was the cause? I read that most of the women who had clotting problems had other risk factors (on birth control pills, smoking, etc). Maybe there should be warnings about taking the shot if you are on birth control.

However, 1367 adverse reactions out of million of doses given is a really small percentage. You would get a higher negative reaction rate from aspirin, and much higher from penicillin.