Also the CDC states that: Cervical cancer used to be the leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. However, in the past 40 years, the number of cases of cervical cancer and the number of deaths from cervical cancer have decreased significantly. This decline largely is the result of many women getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer.
Cervical Cancer Statistics - 2007
On a 2007 thread I posted this:
11,820 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2003,
3,919 women died from the disease that same year.
Dividing 11820 cases by 144 million women comes out to 0.0008208 or 0.08208%.
This is not an epidemic. But it is a moneymaker using scare tactics.
I have no doubt that Merck pushed their product in order to make money. I’d be surprised if they didn’t use every ad trick in the business.
I’d also suggest that our knowledge of certain diseases becomes greater as time goes on, but that they are met with a level of public panic when they reach a certain level of public awareness.
That happened with HPV, and Perry wasn’t the only American who was pontificating.
It just strikes me that everyone needs a chance to grow into new situations, and that when they do they should then be held responsible if they persist in forcing old understandings.
That’s why the voluntary status of the immunization is extremely relevant.