[Amelia]

Was wondering if that was still in force. I for one would refuse it - where’s the male equivalent? The idea that any vaccine would be mandatory under penalty of law - and aren’t vaccine’s non-effective against virus’? Like the vaccine you take is for last years whatever that mutated into something else???

So far, AFAIK, vaccines are only effective against diseases caused by virus, and antibiotics are only effective against diseases caused by bacteria.

So far they aren't giving these vaccines to men, but perhaps they should, since (1) men are generally the ones who transmit the herpes virus which causes cervical cancer to women, and if the man is not a virgin when he marries, the woman is at risk for the virus even if she is perfectly chaste, and (2) recent data connects certain types of throat cancers to this same virus, and throat cancer affects men and women.

[SkyDancer]

I still think it wrong to demand for us to take this vaccine by law - but this girl died in England under their NHC. Now if the plague that wiped out half of Europe were to come back and now that we have a shot for it I think it’d become mandatory to take it ...

[Equalizer]

They have one for little boys.

I did not save the article,

Perhaps someone else has it.

[TChad]

So far they aren't giving these vaccines to men

The FDA approved the vaccine for males earlier this month.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=fda-panel-approves-gardasil-hpv-vac-2009-09-09