HPV Vaccine Warnings

US Government owns HPV vaccine patents

Financial Disclosures: Drs Schiller and Lowy report that they are named inventors on
US government–owned HPV vaccine patents that are licensed to GSK and Merck and are entitled to limited royalties as specified by federal law. Dr Dubin is employed by GSK  Biologicals, the manufacturer of the vaccine used in this trial. No other financial disclosures were reported.

Moreover, Trials done on Costa Rican citizens:

Funding/Support: The Costa Rican HPV Vaccine Trial is a long-standing collaboration between investigators in Costa Rica and the NCI. The trial is sponsored and funded by the NCI (grant N01-CP-11005), with funding support from the National Institutes of Health Office for Research on Women's Health, and conducted with support from the Ministry of Health of Costa Rica.
Vaccine was provided for our trial by GSK Biologicals, under a Clinical Trials Agreement with the NCI. GlaxoSmithKline also provided support for aspects of the trial associated with regulatory submission needs of the company under grant FDA BB-IND 7920.
 

The AMA Journal of American Medicine (JAMA) warns Legislators about mandatory HPV vaccine:

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The ACIP recommendation supports making quadrivalent vaccination the standard of clinical care. However, it is important to emphasize that the vaccine is supported by limited efficacy and safety data. Clinical trials have thus far involved a relatively small population (<12 000 participants) for a limited period of follow-up (5 years). The vaccine has not been evaluated for efficacy among younger girls (aged 9 to 15 years). Yet, if the vaccine were required nationwide, it would be administered to some 2 million girls and young women, most of them between 11 and 12 years old and some as young as 9 years old. The longer-term effectiveness and safety of the vaccine still need to be evaluated among a large population, and particularly among younger girls. Given that the overall prevalence of HPV types associated with cervical cancer is relatively low (3.4%) ⁴ and that the long-term effects are unknown, it is unwise to require a young girl with a very low lifetime risk of cervical cancer to be vaccinated without her assent and her parent's consent. Consider the information a clinician can honestly provide to a 12-year-old girl to obtain her assent: "The 3 injections will probably protect you from an infection that you can only get from sexual contact, but research has not shown how long the protection will last or whether it might have rare bad effects on your health."