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What Everyone Needs to Know About The HPV Vaccine

Dennis Ehren, DC, Neighbor

On June 8th, 2006 the US Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccine Gardasil (aka Silgard), made by Merck & Co., to be administered to adolescent girls for the prevention of certain types of human papillomaviruses (HPV) implicated in genital cancers involving women and men.  Like all vaccines, it is generally considered as safe, however that is not what appears to be the case.  Reports are coming in from all over the world concerning young women who are having devastating reactions to the vaccine. 

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