What the Gardasil Testing May Have Missed

Published: Dec. 18, 2017, 11:05 p.m.

Read a companion piece from Slate\u2019s science editor on this investigation. On a sunny autumn day three years ago, when Kesia Lyng was 30, she had a visit from her youngest sister, Eva. The two were close, and as they sat at the kitchen table in Lyng\u2019s apartment, Eva confronted her chronically ill sibling with a painful fact: \u201cYou almost can\u2019t take care of your own kids,\u201d she told her. \u201cYou can\u2019t keep pushing yourself so hard.