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To: wagglebee

Problem is, people want a perfect life guraranteed to them and it just isn’t going to happen. You weigh the risks and make your decisions. I NEVER heard of PAP tests and biopsies being anything more than uncomfortable. Certainly less of a problem that dying or Guillain-Barre syndrome.


78 posted on 09/28/2007 5:43:14 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom; wagglebee

A big problem with this vaccine is it does not protect against all forms of HPV , only a few strains of it. There are dozens of strains of HPV, some what they call “virulent”. HPV is way beyond epidemic proportions among sexually active (with more than one partner per lifetime, so that’s most adults one would imagine) people. This vaccine’s advertising creates an illusion that a girl can have sex and be exposed to HPV (which she almost is guaranteed to be unless her partner is a virgin), and she is protected against cervical cancer later on. That is a complete misrepresentation. She would still need to have pap smears and all the usual preventive measures against cervical dysplasia, etc.

The larger problem here really is that sexual promiscuity has caused an epidemic that is out of control. Gardisal targets only a small aspect of it. The only 100 percent guarantee against HPV infection is to remain a virgin until married, and marry a virgin. Given that, it’s easy to see why people leap at these grand promises of so-called cancer prevention, which is greatly exaggerated.


84 posted on 09/28/2007 9:26:07 PM PDT by baa39
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