For the past two years many doctor's here in the stateline have been urging girls to get the Gardasil vaccine. It's a series of three shots that prevent against sexually transmitted diseases that cause cervical cancer but now there's an alarming report out that shows thousands are blaming the vaccine for serious side effects.

23 News Reporter Natalie Kaplan spoke with a local nurse about whether getting the vaccine is worth the risk.

More than 8,000 that's how many girls so far have reported serious side effects after getting the vaccine. Illnesses range from wart outbreaks, seizures, paralysis, even death but when Natalie sat down with Jane Kiley, a nurse practitioner at SwedishAmerican Hospital she told her they haven't gotten any complaints about the vaccine and are very pro Gardasil at the clinic.

"The good news study that we aren't talking about is we're having many fewer abnormal pap tests just within the last couple of years so we're always always having to balance benefit and risk."

Kiley told Natalie, in this case, the benefit out weights the risk and she will continue to advise her patients to get the series of shots.

The maker of the drug Merck and the CDC also say Gardasil is safe and effective and they have not found a link to any deaths. They also say Gardasil appears safer than most vaccines, since less people report side effects then with others.

Still, some parents with sick children aren't buying it. One dad started a website for girls to write in about their illnesses hoping more people will come forward:
http://jenjensfamily.blogspot.com/