Following breast cancer it is the cervical cancer that has been proved as one of the common form of diseases among women. It mainly hits woman between the age of 15 and 44 and is caused due to HPV or Human Papilloma virus.

As a safety measure, the Irish Medicines Board last year decided to vaccinate girl students studying in sixth year, with the cervical cancer vaccination. For this they gave Gardasil vaccine to first and second year girls of school in last May. Parents of these girls have been also provided with a special report from the Irish Medicines Board, according to which "The balance of benefits and risks for the vaccine is positive".

This year, it has been decided that from September onwards, efforts would be made to at least vaccinate around 28000 school girls. In fact, girl students of bigger classes will also be given the vaccination, to ensure that nobody is left out.

Well, doctors and health professionals have been already asked to report about any kind of reactions.

According to them, this vaccination is totally safe and therefore it has been decided that from now onwards only those reactions would be reported which involves some kind of suspect or serious adverse reactions. Routine reaction reporting will not be there.