Our view of the HPV jab is based on facts – we are not scaremongering

ANDREW Doyle (Letters, August 30) criticises your for publishing a letter from Mothers Alliance Ireland (MAI) which, he says, tried to use “scare tactics against the HPV vaccine”.

Let me assure Mr Doyle that the opinions of MAI are based on facts, many of which have been confirmed by your front page report headlined ‘Cervical cancer jab experiment in public health’ (August 30).

It quotes from a report by Dr Diane Harper who has been a consultant to Merck, the manufacturers of the vaccine. She carried out safety and effectiveness studies to get approval for the vaccine. She is also a director of the cancer prevention research group at University of Missouri, USA.