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To: Nevernow
If they're going to force a vaccine on kids, why not the flu vaccine?

Because in clinical trials, not a single serious adverse reaction has been linked to Gardasil. On the other hand, several people die each year from adverse reactions to the flu vaccine. Moreover, Gardasil confers long term (and most likely lifetime) immunity. The flu vaccine has to be re-administered, at great effort and at great expense, annually.

40 posted on 02/09/2007 1:15:20 PM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: Alter Kaker
Because in clinical trials, not a single serious adverse reaction has been linked to Gardasil. On the other hand, several people die each year from adverse reactions to the flu vaccine.

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Was death one of the adverse reactions in the clinical trials of the flu vaccine? Or was it an adverse reaction discovered after the fact?
45 posted on 02/09/2007 1:23:47 PM PST by keepitreal
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To: Alter Kaker

There's no proof it's a lifetime immunity, considering there have been no studies past 5 years. On minors, there was no study that went past 18 months. On girls 9-11...there was no study done.

The precancer HPV can be caught with a pap smear.

Are you suggesting we FORCE girls (who as I said, are at an age where there was no clinical test done, so saying there were no adverse reactions is pretty accurate) to take a vaccine that has been proven to be dangerous to some individuals when the problem it's supposed to be preventing can be caught with a routine pap smear? There's no opt-out in West Virginia.

This doesn't protect against all HPV, either, so that figure you have (which is based off a study done in the 80s) wouldn't change very much. Women can still get the other strains.

There are two girls who may have developed a serious and sometimes deadly syndrome from this vaccine.

If people want the vaccine, they should take it. If not, they shouldn't be forced to take it.


48 posted on 02/09/2007 1:30:10 PM PST by Nevernow (No one has the right to choose to do what is wrong.)
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To: Alter Kaker; Nevernow
Because in clinical trials, not a single serious adverse reaction has been linked to Gardasil.

Keep telling yourself that because nobody else with any credibility will.

Moreover, Gardasil confers long term (and most likely lifetime) immunity.

Nobody knows that for sure because it hasn't been tested that long, so you're making some pretty groundless speculations there.

The flu vaccine has to be re-administered, at great effort and at great expense, annually.

Which happens anyway. And besides, to make it mandatory, they have to have enough of a supply and I don't ever recall that being the situation.

100 posted on 02/09/2007 4:02:09 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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