[MadIvan]

He has completely lost the plot. It's nice that a vaccine is available, but unless we're talking a typhoid epidemic, there's no reason for him to mandate any vaccine.

Regards, Ivan

[najida]

I agree that the vaccine is great to have a available, but it should be voluntary.

And if I had a daughter, she'd get it.... I mean, you can have sex just one time and get the HPV virus. Rape, just making one bad decision or having an unfaithful spouse is all it takes.

[Caesar Soze]

He has completely lost the plot. It's nice that a vaccine is available, but unless we're talking a typhoid epidemic, there's no reason for him to mandate any vaccine.

I don't know what typhoid numbers are, but HPV is the most common STI in the US. Over half of women are exposed to it within four years of beginning sexual activity. Eighty percent of women will have contracted it by the time they reach the age of 50. Most don't get sick, but some do; some get very, very sick. Every year there are over a million cases of potentially cancerous growths that need treatment, and several thousand cancer fatalities, costing $2 billion. (Posted my sources in the previous thread that got 600+ replies, too lazy to post them again here.)

The FDA's fact sheet on Gardasil is available here. As usual, the anti-vaccination crowd is blowing the incidence of negative side-effects all out of proportion. (0.03 percent suffered headaches, oh no! But only 0.02 percent of the placebo group suffered headaches -- obviously, this "placebo" is better! Why didn't the FDA approve placebos instead? It must be the evil pharma corporations!)