Posted on 05/11/2007 11:38:51 AM PDT by Froufrou
"At this stage, vaccination can still be considered experimental," said Dr. Karen McCune, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UCSF, who co-authored the editorial. "To be discussing mandatory vaccination when the main clinical trials are still ongoing seems extremely premature. We're feeling like the enthusiasm is driving policy rather than data."
A bill in the California Legislature requiring vaccination stalled in committee in March over concerns about parental rights and the lack of information about the long-term effects of the vaccine. The author has amended his bill to address the wider issue of how California requires vaccinations. In Texas, Gov. Rick Perry backed off this week from orders to force all sixth-grade girls in the state to be vaccinated.
In clinical trials, the vaccine has proved very effective at preventing infection from two strains of HPV that cause 70 percent of cervical cancer cases. Researchers released new data today -- also published in the New England Journal of Medicine -- based on a study of 15,000 women, that showed the vaccine was about 98 percent effective in preventing infection of the two HPV strains.
But the primary concerns of doctors like McCune are that long-term side effects of the vaccine are unknown -- the most recent study followed women for three years -- and that earlier research hasn't considered what effect the vaccine has on the remaining 13 strains of HPV that also cause cervical cancer.
It's possible, McCune said, that the remaining strains may fill a "niche" left if the two most common strains are wiped out entirely. If that happens, the vaccine might not make any difference on overall cervical cancer rates, she said.
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Remarkable.
If you disagree with these findings you are a "plug in demeaning term here". /S
Applies to Global Warming too...
I think it’s significant that this comes out one day after the OxyContin scandal.
The issue I have is that Merck is pushing Marketing over Research. And that puts people at unnecessary risk.
People who engage in oral sex are also at risk of cancer from HPV (the articles were posted to FR this week). People of both sexes.
So why are the boys exempted from this mandatory vacination?
HPV, it’s not just for cervical cancer anymore.
~snorrfle!~
Chicken Little: “The sky is falling!”
And besides, it’ll turn our daughters into sluts. /sarc
“So why are the boys exempted from this mandatory vacination?”
I harped on that one for a long time, too. I had to excerpt the article, but it did allude to the possibility that other cancers could be contained with this “wonder drug.”
Because it has never been tested in boys. It might make their goodies fall off before they get divorced and their ex-wives cut them off.
Did I really say that?
Where will the insanity stop. I can understand vaccinating for measles etc because you don’t even need to have direct contact to contract the disease but something like HPV is just ridiculous. I’d like to give these morons a shot of common sense. That’s something that’s useful and I wish more people had some of.
The idea that your child will be strapped down and forcefully injected, over yours and her objections — is an obscenity.
I can understand requiring vaccinations for contagious diseases for school-age children. It’s a public health issue.
This is a PRIVATE health issue. People should have control over their own reproductive organs. (Unless a girl gets pregnant, of course. Then she should be forced to give birth — even over her own strenuous objections. She should be strapped down to a prison bed, if necessary, until she delivers.)
“I can understand requiring vaccinations for contagious diseases for school-age children. It’s a public health issue.”
Yes, there’s a big difference, IMHO. Polio was horrible and so people quickly became cavalier about vaccines and vaccinations. The truth is, they can be dangerous.
CBER - Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV types 6, 11, 16, 18)
June 8, 2006
Can males use Gardasil? -- Gardasil is not approved for use in males, but the manufacturer currently has a study underway to see if it is safe and effective for them. Once the study is complete and submitted to FDA, the agency will review the data and decide whether to approve Gardasil for males.
Yep, exactly the way the x42 administration pushed RU486 through the FDA, without proper trials and testing.
In their zeal to placate feminists, they have endangered women.
I don’t know why there’s apparently so little integrity in the pharmaceutical industry.
One word: MONEY
Correct. This is the same phenom driving the Al Gore bus.
Hmmm...I thought that bus was driven by vapor vs. substance.
;p
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