So one of 40 odd million doses happens to coincide with the CFS onset in one person. This is not evidence this is sensationalist nonsense.
Safety
As of February 2009, 40 million doses of Gardasil had been distributed worldwide.[37] The vaccine was tested in thousands of females (ages 9 to 26).[38] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) consider the vaccine to be safe. It does not contain mercury, thiomersal or live virus or dead virus, only virus-like particles, which cannot reproduce in the human body.[38]
The FDA and the CDC say that the vaccine has only minor side effects, such as soreness around the injection area.[38] Fainting is more common among adolescents receiving the Gardasil vaccine than in other kinds of vaccinations. Patients should remain seated for 15 minutes after they receive the HPV vaccine.[39] There have been reports that the shot is more painful than other common vaccines, and the manufacturer Merck partly attributes this to the virus-like particles within the vaccine.[40] General side effects of the shot may include joint and muscle pain, fatigue, physical weakness and general malaise.[41]
An update on adverse events was published by JAMA and looked at data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), covering 12,424 reported adverse events after about 23 million doses of vaccine between June 2006 and December 2008.[42][43] Most adverse effects were minor and not greater than background rates compared with other vaccines, the exception being higher rates for syncope and venous thromboembolic events.[43] Venous thromboembolic events were noted in 56 reports at a rate of 0.2 cases per 100,000 doses distributed and included 19 cases of pulmonary embolism, 4 of which were fatal.[43] Overall, 772 events (6.2% of the total number of adverse events, but only 0.003% of the total number of doses) were described as serious and included 32 deaths (1 per 1,000,000 doses).[43]
Other adverse events include local site reactions (7.5 cases per 100,000 doses distributed), headaches (4.1 cases per 100,000 doses distributed), hypersensitivity reactions (3.1 cases per 100,000 doses distributed), and urticaria (hives) (2.6 cases per 100,000 doses distributed).[43]
The FDA and the CDC said that with millions of vaccinations "by chance alone some serious adverse effects and deaths" will occur in the time period following vaccination, but have nothing to do with the vaccine.[44] More than 20 women who received the Gardasil vaccine have died, but these deaths have not been causally connected to the shot.[44] Where information has been available, the cause of death was explained by other factors.[45][46] Likewise, a small number of cases of Guillain-Barr Syndrome (GBS) have been reported following vaccination with Gardasil, there is no evidence linking GBS to the vaccine.[12][47][42] It is unknown why a person contracts GBS, or what initiates the disease.[48]
The FDA and the CDC monitor events to see if there are patterns, or more serious events than would be expected from chance alone.[45] The majority (68%) of side effects data were reported by the manufacturer, but in about 90% of the manufacturer reported events, no follow-up information was given that would be useful to investigate the event further.[43] In February 2009, the Spanish ministry of health suspended use of one batch of Gardasil after health authorities in the Valencia region reported that two girls had become ill after receiving the injection. Merck has stated that there was no evidence Gardasil was responsible for the two illnesses.[37]
I only know what the docs told me, and I was kinda stuck trusting it because I don't have any medical training.
