Bogus statistics, clever marketing, and a great big rip-off!
If you research the full statistics, you’ll see that most cases of HPV-caused cervical cancer are caused by strains of HPV that Gardasil doesn’t even protect against!
This is not a vaccine against all, nor even MOST of the strains that cause cervical cancer. It’s a very expensive vaccine that only offers protection from a few strains of the virus.
Yes, you are right. There are now scores of strains of HPV, some more “virulent” than others, and this “vaccine” only targets a few. It would be very foolish, if anyone does ever get this “vaccine”, to assume she is protected by it from HPV or eventual cervical cancer.
The real tragedy here is that most people do not know that the Human Papilloma Virus is an STD, and at epidemic levels. Deaths and surgeries could be prevented if this subject were out in the open.
I imagine that most young women who “decide” to be sexually active before marriage are told by their doctor to go on the Pill, but not educated about the potential of death by cancer 10 or 20 years later from these highly contagious virus strains.
HPV only kills heterosexual women, so it’s not nearly as popular to talk about as “HIV” - although it is vastly more likely to be transmitted.