of which 70% MAY (important word) have been prevented by this drug. The makers of this drugs do not guarantee that it works. It only works (most of the time)on 4 stains of the virus.
100% may have been prevented if these women would have had regular pap smears. A much better use of taxpayers money would be to fund clinics that offer these routine tests, such as pap smears and mammograms which would provide early detection and treatment of cancers, saving many more lives.
It's also important to note that most of the time, a HPV infection clears up on it's own.
If people want this shot, then by all means, get it. But women should be warned when getting it that it does not prevent all HPV infection, and regular pap smears are no less important.
Making it mandatory is poor use of taxpayers money for a product with such limited benefit.
Plus there are no side effects from a pap smear (or a mammogram).
I think the wart goes away, but I'm not sure the virus ever does, much like Chicken Pox can come back as Shingles many years later after living in the nerve sheathing the whole time.
I've also heard that as many as 25% of the pop. may be carriers. You will never legislate cancer out of existence.
An even better use of the taxpayer's money would be to return it to the taxpayers. Not the school kids. Not the welfare recipients. The taxpayers.
If parents have a desire to get vaccines for THEIR kids, then they can pay for them.