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HPV virus in men can cause health problems, too. The vaccine doesn’t work for them?
“It can increase a man’s risk of getting genital cancers, although these cancers are not common. HPV can also cause genital warts in men, just as in women.”
Or it may not, not to get too graphic about it. And it definitely doesn't suggest that there has been a long-term study of this vaccine's effects on . . . anyone at all! Talk about making a market for yourself by government fiat. Yeah, I trust your research.
Merck's been nailed for carelessness and a shallow research bench before. I wouldn't bet on that pony, thanks.
Many people feel that the vaccine itself carries too many risks.
Also, no one has to answer you. Parents make the decisions about what is best for their children here in America. Not overwrought “nannyism” bantering on about people they know who got had cancer.
Both are the siren call of the Moonbat Liberal.
Take it someplace else.
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The key to your statement is as best they can. Have you seen the recent TV commercials from a lawyer trolling for "victims" of the dye used in kidney MRI's? There are many of us concerned about what we don't know about medical technology and what is put into our bodies. I will not subject my prepubescent daughter to a vaccine with little if any history of trials with children her age, certainly not following them through puberty and into their childbearing years. As best I can means educating her about the morality and consequences of sexual activity, NOT subjecting her to medical experimentation. Further, she STILL needs the behavior modification since the vaccine offers only partial protection.
Signed, DES baby. Yeah, been there, done that. Thank goodness I was male (but it might explain a few things - who can I sue?)
Have you had many family members die from cervical cancer? You know, all adult women have been advised for at least 30 years (long before the HPV/cancer connection was even hypothesized) to get annual Pap tests with prompt follow-up treatment for any irregular results.
Government has no business mandating such a vaccine. Period.
I think all young boys and men should be vaccinated immediately......infact, it should be a state law.....
The best protection from cervical cancer is yearly pap smears.
I respect what you've been through and how you feel. However, you should respect that it should be up to no one bu the parents to decide to which UNnecessary vaccines their children are subject. Cancer is not a communicable disease and this is not some huge public health emergency. This vaccine is pretty much untested, and no one knows the efficacy or the longterm side effects. So, to turn your question around, why would anyone want their daughters and mothers and sisters to become guinea pigs for a pharmaceutical company? JMO.
I absolutely don't believe this. They need to test everyone in the country for the HPV virus, if they believe that 25% of women are infected. It sounds like they are in league with the vaccine companies, in order for the vaccine companies to make money. Does the CDC get a kickback?
If HPV was so costly in the form of costs of care and treatment, we would see health insurance carriers urging their policyholders to be immunized.
I agree with a previous poster: it is not any of the government’s business if I force my daughter to get the shots or not.
Keeping one’s fingernails short and washing one’s hands after using the toilet might mitigate HPV somewhat. Might help; wouldn’t hurt.
The “WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care” states that:
• “Failure to comply with hand hygiene is considered the leading cause of health care-associated infections.”
• “Each year, at least two million patients in the USA acquire one or more healthcare-associated infections during their stay in hospital.”
• “Every day 247 people die in the USA as a result of a health-associated infection.”
Infectious diseases, caused by unclean hands, are the leading causes of death and disease worldwide
and the third leading cause of death in the United States.
Back in June, it was reported that over 1,600 adverse reactions, including three deaths, had been linked to Gardasil, Merck’s new vaccine.
It appears those reactions, and deaths, are steadily rising. A review of the National Vaccine Information Center revealed the following, quite alarming, statistic about this unnecessary vaccine: 2,207 adverse reactions to Gardasil have been reported. Among them:
5 girls died
31 were considered life-threatening
1,385 required a visit to the emergency room
451 of the girls have not recovered as of July 2007
51 of the girls were disabled
Gardasil “may be more dangerous than consumers have been led to believe,” according to one public-interest group, and an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine has also raised questions about the vaccine's effectiveness.
Did you know that 90% of all HPV cases clear up on their own with proper diet and proper medical treament?
Plus, five minutes of homework will reveal that NOT ONE fertility test was done on any of the so-called Merck female test subjects for Gardasil. Merck also does not recommend the vaccinations after the age of 25. Hmmmm....why is that????????????????????
Don't drink the koolaid! LOL!
If your family members are dieing of cervical cancer, it suggests that they are not getting proper medical care. I would suggest an immediate change in GYNs.
HPV is a SKIN disease, period. It poses a cancer risk when some women have the virus (certain strands) come in contact with their mucus membrames (cervical cancer) genital warts. It has also been linked to throat cancer.
All it takes is the virus to come into contact with these areas to possibly cause an infection. The idea it only can be spread by intercourse is naive.
I don’t believe children should be given this vaccine, as long term effects are just not known. However those that think this isn’t a real risk to their daughters because its “only an STD” are misinformed.
Its a skin disease, one that something like 80 or 90% of the population will be infected with at one time in their lives or another.
Because this ‘cure’ has not been fully tested. You can get flesh eating bacteria from the ocean, do you plan to bar every person with an open wound from going into the ocean?
It’s entirely up to my wife if she wants this ‘cure’. When my daughters are old enough, it’s their decision if they want this ‘cure’. No government should mandate they get this ‘cure’.
Also, what is the percentage again of HPV strains this prevents? I may be wrong, but IIRC it was 4%. That’s not enough to have the government FORCE my children to get something that we have NO IDEA what the long term effects are.
I don’t trust this vaccine.