[Cboldt]

-- ... but how is this vaccine any different from the whole cocktail of vaccines your four-year-old is required to have before starting public school? --

One big difference is the mortality rate. Another, for some but not all of the mandated vaccines, is communicability.

The mortality rate for influenza is greater than for HPV. If 10,000 people get flu, and 10,000 people get HPV, more will die from flu and complications than from HPV.

Measles, diptheria, whooping cough are highly contagious, and have higher mortality rates than influenza.

[thackney]

Over 4,000 people die per year to cervical cancer.

How many people die each year in the US due to flu?