[Marie]

However, we've vaccinated millions of people over almost three generations now and there simply isn't any serious scientific evidence that vaccination is harmful to one's health...I'd say that track record puts Gardasil in a different category than the other things you cite. Certainly medicine isn't perfect, but vaccination has a long and respected track record when it comes to preventing disease.

In 5 or ten years, when this vaccine has proven itself safe and effective, I'll pay out-of-pocket for my daughter to get jabbed.

Part of my resistance to vaccines comes from a family physician we had several years ago. I wanted to get the chicken pox vaccine for my kids and he was *very* against it.

My daughter contracted measles after being fully vaccinated. Makes me wonder how effective they really are.

My best friend's son had grand mal seizures a few hours after his first shots. The docs convinced her it was a fluke, he recovered and she brought him back for the next round a few months later. Again he seized.

Because there are side effects and consequences to all medical procedures and medications, it should be up to the patient (or their parents) and their doctors to make these decisions. Not politicians.

[Old_Mil]

My daughter contracted measles after being fully vaccinated. Makes me wonder how effective they really are.

Certain vaccines (influenza and the MMR), partial immunity can be conferred through a process that's a bit too long for me to get into here. In such cases, though you come down with the disease, you get a much milder form. For instance, in the case of mumps, you might end up with a transient illness measured in weeks instead of lifelong infertility as a consequences.