[lqclamar]

If you don't give your daughter the HPV vaccine, not only are you threatening her own life (which I think, as a parent, is utterly irresponsible)

Seriously - cut the hyperbole crap.

Nobody's daughter's life is being "threatened" in any normal sense of the word by not taking this vaccine. There are 150 million women in the United States and less than 10,000 cases of cervical cancer a year. The fatality rate is about 4,000 (40%), and about 9,000 (90%) of the cases are HPV related. Supposing this vaccine has a 70% prevention rate for HPV, that gives us 6,300 preventable HPV-related cervical cancer cases annually and about 2,500 preventable HPV-related cervical cancer fatalities.

IOW, the chance of a female in the United States dying from HPV-related cervical cancer in the next year is 2,500/150,000,000 or only 25 out of every 1.5 MILLION people.

Put another way, you have a better chance of dying from a coconut falling off a tree and hitting you on the head.

[Alter Kaker]

Nobody's daughter's life is being "threatened" in any normal sense of the word by not taking this vaccine. There are 150 million women in the United States and less than 10,000 cases of cervical cancer a year.

But you still have 10,000 people getting a completely preventable cancer each year. Again if you don't vaccinate her, you're putting your daughter at completely unnecessary risk. That's not hyperbole.