Is Gardasil worth the risk?

In 2006, Gardasil was approved as a vaccine for females aged 9-26 to guard against four strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) which can cause cervical cancer. Since its inception there have been over 78,000 medical reactions and reports of complaints. The complaints include blood clots, nausea, genital warts and even death.


The most recent issue is very frightening: the vaccine is being blamed for a teen's paralysis. Parents of Jenny, a 13 year old girl from Northern California, say that their daughter was healthy until 15 months ago, the date when she received her final installment of the vaccine. There is no medical confirmation that the link is connected but the timing seems to suggest that the vaccine cause Jenny to experience signs of degenerative muscle disease. Now she is almost completely paralyzed.

Can this medicine be trusted? Obviously this is not an isolated event. I was considering looking into the vaccination due to my family history but with 78,000 complaints and a discovery such as this one I am going to wait a while for some convincing studies to appear before I get vaccinated.