CDC Takes Closer Look at Gardasil and Paralysis

US News & World Report ^ | 20 Mar 2009 | Deborah Kotz

[mysterio]

"Let's say it causes just one or two cases of ALS every year out of a million doses that are given. What if your daughter is the one?"

Aspirin kills 20,000 Americans each year. What if your daughter is among those 20,000?

[AD from SpringBay]

Good question. My only comment to that would be there is very little difference, except there are some out there wanting to make gardasil a requirement.

[ConservativeMind]

I wonder if, because herpes lives only in the nervous system itself (and not the bloodstream), the vaccine triggers something within nerves that could cause this deterioration.

[lilycicero]

Correct if I am wrong, but why would they want to require girls to get the vaccine and not boys...they are carriers too. Either way, I wouldn’t let my kid get the vaccine.

[Vigilanteman]

It would have been nice if the drug pushers of Gardasil would have told the truth: It is a vaccination against a sexually transmitted virus. Girls who plan to remain virgins until marriage have no need to get it.

But then, that would have cut into their sales because our overlords all know that such concepts are so unrealistic and out of date.

[Old Professer]

“(1996): “Each year, use of NSAIDs (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) accounts for an estimated 7,600 deaths and 76,000 hospitalizations in the United States.” (NSAIDs include aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac, ketoprofen, and tiaprofenic acid.)

Source: Robyn Tamblyn, PhD; Laeora Berkson, MD, MHPE, FRCPC; W. Dale Jauphinee, MD, FRCPC; David Gayton, MD, PhD, FRCPC; Roland Grad, MD, MSc; Allen Huang, MD, FRCPC; Lisa Isaac, PhD; Peter McLeod, MD, FRCPC; and Linda Snell, MD, MHPE, FRCPC, “Unnecessary Prescribing of NSAIDs and the Management of NSAID-Related Gastropathy in Medical Practice,” Annals of Internal Medicine (Washington, DC: American College of Physicians, 1997), September 15, 1997, 127:429-438, from the web at http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/15sep97/nsaid.htm, last accessed Feb. 14, 2001, citing Fries, JF, “Assessing and understanding patient risk,” Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology Supplement, 1992;92:21-4.

[soccermom]

Fair enough, but there are alternatives to aspirin. If a parent thinks his or her daughter is at low risk for VD because she was taught to abstain, I don’t see why they should subject their child to this risk. Poor girl.

[mysterio]

I'm not for forcing anyone to use Gardasil. I'm also not for anti-vaccine hysteria. There are five hundred million pages on the internet claiming to be definitive proof that childhood vaccines cause autism. Almost none of them acknowledge that the research behind that claim was faked and was proven to be faked in this past year.

All I'm asking is that people research for themselves and make an informed decision. Personally, I'm glad I never had to catch measles, mumps, diphtheria, or smallpox.

[mysterio]

Girls who plan to remain virgins until marriage have no need to get it.

Once married, will those girls be engaging in sexual intercourse with their husbands?

[mysterio]

If a parent thinks his or her daughter is at low risk for VD because she was taught to abstain, I don’t see why they should subject their child to this risk.

Because while your daughter might remain a virgin until marriage, it is unlikely that the boy she marries will make that choice as well. Cervical cancer can kill you just as dead even if you wait until marriage to have sex.

[Gabz]

Gardasil PING to the Mom’s...........

[Gabz]

My only comment to that would be there is very little difference, except there are some out there wanting to make gardasil a requirement.

And they have succeeded in places. Virginia requires it for girls entering 6th grade, which my daughter will be doing in September. However, we will be opting her out of the vaccine, as is permitted under the requirement law.

[xsmommy]

does the vaccine work on boys?

[Gabz]

Because while your daughter might remain a virgin until marriage, it is unlikely that the boy she marries will make that choice as well. Cervical cancer can kill you just as dead even if you wait until marriage to have sex

I have nothing against young women (18+ or even 16+) getting this vaccine to protect against exactly what you are saying here. My entire objection to this is the government mandating it for 11 years olds.

[Dianna]

Cervical cancer can kill you just as dead even if you wait until marriage to have sex

Sure. But, really, the risk seems fairly low if one is good about getting pap smears.

About 3,870 women will die from cervical cancer in the United States during 2008. Cervical cancer was once one of the most common causes of cancer death for American women. The cervical cancer death rate declined by 74% between 1955 and 1992. The main reason for this change is the increased use of the Pap test.

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_are_the_key_statistics_for_cervical_cancer_8.asp

[Gabz]

They don’t know, because it wasn’t tested on boys, just girls, primarily because men can’t get cervical cancer.

[edhawk]

It will if you “boy” has a cervix I suppose.

[Gabz]

The main reason for this change is the increased use of the Pap test.

and that is another concern in regard to this vaccine --- a false sense of protection. The vaccine does not protect against all strains of HPV that have a causal link to cervical cancer. The concern is more women will fore go having pap smears, possibly resulting in increased numbers of cervical cancers.

[xsmommy]

silly are we? if it is designed to kill whatever causes cervical cancer why would it not work on both genders, including the carrier?