[metmom]

“Lifestyle” vaccines like hepatitis B and HPV seem to do what they are supposed to do, but so does avoiding risky behavior. It’s technically true, in a nursery full of babies, that we “just can’t tell” who is going to be a drug addict. It’s technically true that among girls in kindergarten, we don’t know who will be promiscuous. But it seems right that requiring these types of vaccine should involve parental consent.

One concern raised with the HPV vaccine, is that there were people who actually said that they were glad for it because now they didn't have to worry about cervical cancer.

The danger is that women would be foregoing annual PAP tests.

I d=could see that actually raising the cancer rates and bad outcomes because women are not being screened for it and it won't be caught until it's too late.

[erlayman]

RFK Jr tells the story behind the Hepatitis B vaccine for babies. According to him. the manufacturers (Merck or GlaxoSmithKline) complained to the FDA when it wasn’t selling to adults as promised so the HHS came back and said no problem, we’ll just put it on the schedule for children.

The game is up for them now that we have director that nearly lost his voice and suffered permanent neurological damage after a routine flu vaccine.