How do we know the gardasil is safe? arent we just guinea pigs? ?

Question

how do we know if we'll all drop dead in a couple of years?

Answer 1

We are pretty much guinea pigs with any new medication.

Answer 2

Because people haven't just dropped dead after the trials and it has been years since the first ones, you are right though they do not know very long-term effects, however because there have been many vaccinations made before, it's known how to make them and how they work.

Though I would still be hesitant about getting such a new vaccination.

Harriet

Answer 3

The Gardasil vaccine has a rather interesting history. A lot of the initial work in developing antibodies was done in the early 90s. The vaccine itself - it wasn't called Gardasil then, was essentially done in about 2002, with initial studies covering about 11,000 women for four years. I don't believe any of them have keeled over dead yet due to the vaccine - that's not how they work anyway.

I believe they're up to around 15 million or more people immunized with this vaccine now. Quite a healthy number, again, no one is dropping dead.

The hoops you have to jump through to get a vaccine approved are absolutely staggering. A phase 3 clinical trial over four years with 11,000 people is staggering - the cost of doing studies a tenth that size is in the upper hundreds of millions. Worth every penny though. This is a vaccine a lot of doctors have been hoping to see finished for decades.

Answer 4

Gardasil is FDA approved, which means that the federal government has tested, and studied the drug for years before the release for human use.

Answer 5

how did we know witha ny medication>?