Other vaccines are required for diseases that can be passed casually, i.e. breathing the same air, touching a doorknob after an infected person has touched it. HPV is passed through a behavior choice that is deliberate and carries other risks besides HPV.
Oh I know, your little princess will be 21 and married before she’s thrashed by Antwon, not like the likely average age of 13.
I simply don't want government dictating to me how I should be raising my child. I would certainly fight against the Obamas dictating what I should be feeding my child, but apparently, you are okay with that since the rate of childhood obesity is so high.
Good grief.
Vaccine for Hepatitis is mandated and it is not passed this way.
You know, vaccines are the weirdest issue on FR that get the weirdest obsessiveness. I remember when pertussis vaccines were blamed for autism until that was debunked.
It's almost like a religion--vaccines seem to tap into a vein of primitive thinking.
The problem is that they are too successful, maybe?
In my family's old cemetery there is a little line of tombstones, where four children from a single family died within a few weeks of each other of diphtheria.
That was so many years ago that we start to believe that the diseases no longer exist. But I can remember children with leg braces before the polio vaccine.
While I don't think that we should jump willy-nilly into a new vaccination program, the reaction to Gardisil is out of proportion to its dangers.