Ten days after her second Gardasil vaccination, she suffered acute encephalomyelitis, inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. It caused demyelination, destruction of the sheath surrounding nerves, which resulted in a severe left-sided headache and blindness in the right eye, which rapidly deteriorated into a headache encompassing her entire head and blindness of her other eye. Paralysis of her left arm was temporary. Her vision never recovered.

The girl was blinded more than 18 months prior to the time the article was written. I queried the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) with the following characteristics that match this event and but are broad enough to assure this case would come up if reported:

• Blindness
• HPV4 (Gardasil) or HPV (Human Papillomavirus [types 6, 11, 16, 18] recombinant vaccine)
• Any onset period after vaccination
• Vaccination date prior to September 2008
• Ages 6-18
• Connecticut (All three of the doctors reside in this state.)

As of the date of this writing, the case is not in the VAERS database. How many others have gone unreported? If the authors of a case like this didn't bother to report it in the VAERS database, one can only wonder whether this is a relatively rare or a frequent outcome of the Gardasil vaccine. At this point, how can anyone assume its safety? Would you risk blindness for a questionable vaccine?

Here are the salient facts regarding cervical cancer and the vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix:

• Gardasil and Cervarix have never been shown to prevent cancer, only to prevent certain human papilloma viruses. No causal link between HPV and cancer has been shown.
• Gardasil was documented by the FDA to significantly increase the risk of cancer in any woman who had already been infected with the human papilloma virus.
• The risk of cervical cancer is quite slim. With modern testing, it can nearly always be caught early—before a cancerous lesion develops—and readily treated.
• Most cases of cervical cancer have no relationship with HPV.
• Healthy women normally clear HPV from their systems within two years. Even the FDA acknowledges this.
• The length of time that Gardasil and Cervarix can prevent HPV infections is probably less than five years—yet girls as young as 11 are being pushed to have the jab.

In light of those facts, it would make no sense to have the Gardasil or Cervarix vaccine. Add to that the risks—including severe neurological damage, such as blindness and death—and that the extent of harm is not being tracked, one must ask why these vaccinations are being foisted on innocent children and otherwise healthy women, not to mention a new push to vaccinate boys, who cannot possibly contract cancer of a body part they don't possess.