Parents of young girls should educate themselves about Gardasil

In a few weeks, parents of girls aged 12 and 13 will be asked an important question based on limited information and a lot of trust.

The question is whether to give consent for a vaccine called Gardasil, which is marketed as “protecting your daughter now and in the future” from cervical cancer.

The European Medicines Agency has been asked by doctors in Denmark to carry out more safety studies, because a large number of girls in the country have experienced, “symptoms consistent with pronounced autonomic dysfunction, including different degrees of orthostatic intolerance, severe non-migraine-like headache, excessive fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, gastrointestinal discomfort and widespread pain of a neuropathic character”.