Posted on 07/19/2011 10:12:50 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Snapshots of two clean-cut teenagers, a boy and a girl, stare out from a newspaper advertisement for the vaccine Gardasil. “Boys can be affected by HPV disease too,” says the bold headline. The ad urges parents to protect “both your son and daughter.”
Until recently, Gardasil was a girls-only proposition. Approved for young women ages 9 to 26, the vaccine promised a great benefit: protection against four strains of sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), including two that can lead to cancer of the cervix, vagina and vulva.
Yet the vaccine has been a tough sell. It requires three shots, often painful, over the course of seven months. So far, only one in four teenage girls younger than 18 have completed all three shots.
Now, in the wake of new research suggesting that the vaccine protects against other cancers, Gardasil is increasingly marketed as an important vaccine for boys, too. The Food and Drug Administration has approved it for young men ages 9 to 26, expanding the list of indications just last December.
All of which is sure to leave many parents asking: What’s in it for our sons? The answer, it turns out, is changing fast.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Of course abstinence is 100% effective. It’s the way my kids were raised, and I have no doubt that they used that very method. I still had our daughter vaccinated. She didn’t take it as a license to be promiscuous, only as a preventative measure from disease as with all the other vaccinations she had.
yeah, because boys need protection from cervical cancer.
You nailed it right!
Interesting.
What other vaccines has your daughter been given for diseases that can ONLY BE SPREAD BY INTIMATE CONTACT?
It’s less about protecting boys and more about keeping them from transmitting HPV. Whether or not it works is something else altogether and I’d like to see more studies done.
If she's engaging in oral or anal (i.e., "safer") sex, will she or her partner(s) be concerned about diagnosing an HPV infection before she has anal or throat cancer?
It’s all about hitting their target sales numbers. When their first marketing plan of paying off politicians to make it mandatory fell through, they had to go to plan B.
Unforuntately, I know far too many faithful women who have gotten
sexually transmitted diseases from their unfaithful husbands.
Unless they get raped or marry someone who’s lied about their own background.
/// i’d wager, sad as they are, that fewer women get cancer from being raped, than die from side effects from the actual vaccine.
...make it available, fine. but ANY type of mandatory program, when it doesn’t help 99% of the people forced,
is simply about profits for politicians and drug companies!
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http://truthaboutgardasil.org/about-2/
to require MULTIPLE injections, at a HUGE HUGE cost, at zero or negative net benefit, is INSANE.
this doctor, was one of the DEVELOPERS of Gardasil:
“...Dr.Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines and director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group”
HERSELF came out against Gardasil.
Even many LIBERALS now admit Gardasil was a very bad idea.
here is just one TINY example (of MANY) from CBS:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/19/cbsnews_investigates/main5253431.shtml
and here:
“At a cost of $360 dollars for the full 3-shot course of vaccine, that comes to about $900,000,000 to prevent one death.”
(and side effects killed more girls in USA and Britain, than that!)
“Gardasil is intended to protect againist FOUR types of HPV. But there are over 120 different strains of HPV.”
http://truthaboutgardasil.org/about-2/
Gardrasil offers NO benefit for a girl unless she is sexually active. (and those are minimal.)
It offers very REAL dangers and side-effects, for ALL girls who take it.
Thanks for posting those links. People need to educate themselves and stop believing everything and TAKING everything the government shoves at them. All these vaccines are not necessary. They cause dangerous sides effects including infertility and death.
This makes me think about a woman I ran into in a hospital in Houston a number of years ago while my husband was having some minor surgery. Her Granddaughter, who she was raising, was having another surgery to have her throat opened up (lifesaving surgery for her). From her Grandmother’s description she was quite a young woman, graduating at the top of her class. She showed me a photo of a beautiful young lady, and she went on and on how she was the apple of her eye. But she had been in and out of the hospital her entire life because she had had to have surgeries over and over on her throat.
Her mother had had HPV and the Granddaughter had been born with it. She had genital warts in her throat. At least at that time there was no cure, so they periodically had to go in and remove them because they grew until she could not breathe. It was such a sad story. I have no idea how that finally played out, but it made me realize what a serious condition HPV is. This was about the time they were linking it to cervical cancer as well. I don’t know how commonly children are born with it to this extent.
Because too many parents of girls got smart and they need a new target audience.
Teenagers today have grown up believing that condoms and ribbons will prevent everything. This has caused the rates of STDs to skyrocket.
Calling something a "vaccine" will make already egotistical teens feel completely invincible.
I remember a year or two ago when all of the "Tell Somebody" ads were on TV for Gardasil, unless people paid attention to the disclaimers (which most people don't) the impression was that this was an outright vaccine against HPV AND cervical cancer.
Bookmarking and thank you for the wonderful post of links!
That may be true but cervical cancer isn't one of them.
I know this is a serious discussion, but your comment about ribbons did make me chuckle because it’s true. It really is like people believe wearing a ribbon really does something. People are so silly! I sometimes wish this really WAS a move because it WOULD be some sort of a farce. :)
oops...sorry, move should be movie...it makes more sense that way.
oops...sorry, move should be movie...it makes more sense that way.
Horrible disease.
From Wikipedia:
Cancer
HPV-induced cancers[11]
Worldwide in 2002, an estimated 561,200 new cancer cases (5.2% of all new cancers) were attributable to HPV, making HPV one of the most important infectious cause of cancer.[11] 84% of new cervical cancers were in the developing world, compared with about 50% of all new cancers.[11]
About a dozen HPV types (including types 16, 18, 31, and 45) are called “high-risk” types because they can lead to cervical cancer, as well as anal cancer, vulvar cancer, vaginal cancer, and penile cancer[11] . Several types of HPV, in particular type 16, have been found to be associated with HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer (OSCC), a form of head and neck cancer.[12][13] HPV-induced cancers often have viral sequences integrated into the cellular DNA. Some of the HPV “early” genes, such as E6 and E7, are known to act as oncogenes that promote tumor growth and malignant transformation. Oral infection with HPV increased the risk of HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer independent of tobacco and alcohol use.[13] In the United States, HPV is expected to replace tobacco as the main causative agent for oral cancer.[14]
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