Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, is currently on the market for $120 per single dose. Three doses are required over a 6-month period, making the total cost for the HPV vaccine $360. On top of that, some doctors are charging office visit fees when the vaccine is given. If I had young girls, I would vaccinate them at an early enough age before there was any chance they would be exposed to the HPV virus. There is evidence that HPV can be transmitted by unclean hands and objects contaminated with the virus. I would not want to risk that possibility with my daughter’s future. And there is no way to determine what the HPV status of the men they will marry later in their life.
So, if I lived in a state that was proposing state-funded inoculations, I admit that it would be attractive, given the cost I would be paying to have it done privately. Also, if population-wide inoculations to eradicate HPV all together were done, that would be a better thing. It’s too bad that the vaccine costs so much. So, for those like me who want to keep our daughters safe, we’ll pay the costs ourselves. And, I would definitely have my daughter inoculated to protect her from her husband before having sex with him. For others, more hand washing, no premarital sex and not trying on underwear at the J.C. Pennies until you can afford the vaccine would be a good route to go.
Don’t you know that giving her Gardasil is the same as giving her permisson to fornicate before marriage? /sarcasim off