Thanks all. I'm ok with the mmr booster. I didn't see tetanus mentioned though.

Alligatorsmum - first of all, the bad reactions I've heard about. From just feeling sick, to MS like symptoms, to unexplained deaths with in weeks of the vaccine. I only know of 2 friends who've had the vax done. One didn't have any issues, other than some serious pain in the whole arm it was done in, the second felt very sick after the first, but continued to have the other 2 injections.

My sil was in the age group to be in the first few lots of kids injected. The kids had all kinds of issues. From pain to fainting.

It 'may' prevent 2 of around 13 different strains of the HPV virus. As far as I'm aware this is a sexully transmitted disease. It is not spread by breathing on or touching a person. Those who've had cervical cancer have a higher rate of having had the HPV virus in the past, but they can't actually link the two together & it is unknown if it will reduce the number of people diagnosed with cervical/vaginal cancer until about 15 years down the track. So there's around another 7-8 years before they can even compare, & no one will be able to prove the links anyway.

Pap smears will still need to be done every 2 years regardless, & if you practise safe sex, what are the chances of contracting an STI? Education is just as important, if not more, than prevention.

So why would I inject my daughter with something that has been shown to cause such drastic side effects, when all they can do is HOPE it works.

If she decides to have it done when she's older, that's ok by me. But I will hope that she takes it on herself to actually do some reasearch & make an informed decision.

I'm just not ok with 'fad vax's', that are suddenly rushed through the system because we all might suddenly die, so the testing hasn't been carried out properly. I think there was a vax brought in for swine flu wasn't there? Or bird flu? One of them. Where are they now?

I also really don't get the flu vax itself, except for the more vulnerable, like the elderly. My kids are quite healthy. They might get the one flu that they can be immunised against, but chances are they'll get one of the other possible 10 strains of flu going around at any one time.