This should be a NO BRAINER, parents!
Out of the millions of girls who have received the vaccine, a small percentage of those had ANY problems whatsoever, and only 7% of those who HAD problems died as a result.
Put in perspective, you put your child at far GREATER risk if you EVER let her ride in the car with you on America's highways. That's a risk you're willing to take with her life every single day, just for convenience. Why not accept a SMALLER risk to save her from CANCER???
Vaccinate your daughters.
39 deaths from the vaccine. Less than 4000 total deaths a year from Cervical Cancer. The vaccine doesn’t prevent all cervical cancer, and the vaccine is only good for 5 years (I didn’t know that).
Other deaths coinciding with the vaccine have been excluded because the information about them was incomplete.
The cervical cancer prevented by the vaccine can also be prevented by safe sex or abstinence. Neither of those have killed anybody.
So it is not as “no-brainer” as you think. The relative risks are within a few orders of magnitude, and the relative risks among some subclasses are about even, so if you are in those subclasses you might well just ignore the vaccine.
On the other hand, the risks of the vaccine, while much greater than “promised”, are not so far showing up as bad as feared. A few more years and we’ll know more about long-term effects. But for now, there is still the risk of the unknown which isn’t factored into the 39 deaths number.
As to your example of riding in a car, that is also more of a risk than of getting cervical cancer in this country.
She is devoutly Catholic and completely chaste, but that doesn't always make a difference. Rape happens, husbands cheating happens (or husbands carrying a time bomb that they don't even know about from before the marriage). A friend of a friend got a very nasty (and incurable) STD from a husband that she didn't know was into the Midtown bathhouse scene (none of us knew - he hid it VERY well).
Daughter had a heart-to-heart with her pediatrician, who is a fine young man and a very good doctor. He is the protege of our former pediatrician, now deceased, who was the best and wisest doctor I knew. He recommended that she get the vaccine. Unfortunately all vaccines have risks - but some of us remember the days before the polio vaccine when the swimming pools closed and people kept their kids home from school. A boy in my elementary school class was one of the last to be crippled by polio -- his mama didn't get him vaccinated, for whatever reason, and he wore braces for the rest of his life (he was killed in a car wreck when we were in high school).
In no way does this vaccine PREVENT your daughters from getting cancer. please don’t presume to speak down to those of us who are educated, intelligent and well-informed about this particular vaccine and choose NOT to have our daughters vaccinated. It is a choice for each parent to make after informing themselves accordingly.
(1) The vaccine only protects against some strains of HPV that cause cancer, not all of them.
(2) It lasts only five years.
(3) You only get the virus from intimate contact. You can't get it from casual contact.
No, sorry, it's not a "NO BRAINER," not even close. Especially not for 11 yo girls.
Not disagreeing with your point, just your numbers. The post notes that
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Thirty nine of 12,424 "adverse events" is approximately 0.3% of adverse events.
In my opinion real reporting would have put the numbers into perspective overall - for example 39 of 1 million doses is 0.004%. But that doesn't fit the mold of what is typically a liberals method of distorting, uhm, I mean reporting.
Is this how the global warming hysteria got legs...?