[Tax-chick]

Merck acknowledges that the drug is effective for only five years, so giving the drug to 11 to 12 year olds hardly seems warranted.

Here's a fact I hadn't seen before.

So they're wanting to give a vaccine to 9-year-olds, even though its effectiveness will expire when she's 14. Presumably they expect the young girls to be exposed to HPV at 11 or 12?

This is not a disease issue - it's a child-abuse issue!

[Gabz]

I hadn’t seen that so specifically spelled out, although I have read that Merch “wasn’t sure” how long it was effective.

My doctor does not recommend it, most especially in prementrual girls like my 11 year old, even though Virginia “mandates” it for girls entering 6th grade. The gal who is head of the school nurses for our district and happens to be a friend from church. She agrees with me, and the Doc, and says the “mandate” is more a joke than anything. The way I opt out of it is to just not get it. LOL!!!

[!1776!]

Here's a fact I hadn't seen before.

Without qualified scientific bounds and basis for the statement, that fact looks a bit like heresay to me. Absent qualified scientific bounds and basis of course.

This is not a disease issue - it's a child-abuse issue!

Prove that statement with real facts.