The August 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association had an article reiterating the safety of Gardasil[REF] and another questioning the way it was presented to doctors and parents.
According to the CDC, as of 2012, use of the HPV vaccine had cut rates of infection with HPV-6, -11, -16 and -18 in half in American teenagers (from 11.5% to 4.3%) and by one third in American women in their early twenties (from 18.5% to 12.1%) [REF].