Thats sort of the point with vaccines. They don’t work once you have the disease. You have to take it when you are healthy. Wide spread vaccinations practically eliminated some diseases, but the people too lazy or too paranoid to get vaccinated have provided hosts for some of these diseases to hang around and in some cases make a comeback. It’s too bad.
This is the ONLY time in history that anyone has ever suggested a vaccine for a disease that IS NOT TRANSMITTED THROUGH NORMAL, EVERYDAY CONTACT. This is being touted as some sort of wonder drug and we have no clue what it will do to the developing reproductive systems of young girls. For all we know this is the next thalidomide.
Why should my non-sexually active 11 year old daughters get this vaccine, especially when they have to get the booster 5 years later?
I know they are not sexually active.
I figure when they are old enough to drive there is a greater risk for them being sexually active. At 16, we’ll figure out if they should have the vaccine.
However, one of my daughters has a brain injury and now has a seizure disorder. I think I won’t recommend this vaccine at all to her. I think the benefits don’t outweigh the risks for her.
Polio was nearly eradicated, but it's making a comeback in areas of Africa where a widespread rumor was that the vaccine was cover for a plot to sterilize Muslims. Vaccinations resumed after the NGOs started buyng vaccine from Saudi Arabia, but the effort w as set back years, if not decades. Polio is, like smallpox, a good candidate for eradication -- both diseases have no hsts other than humans, so they're not lurking in the forest waiting to resurface.