Cervical cancer vaccine: are jabs a risk worth taking for our Child?

The Telegraph ^ | 30 Sep 2009 | Mark Honigsbaum

[nickcarraway]

We have grown increasingly sceptical about vaccination in recent decades, says Mark Honigsbaum.

Politicians have long known that a life lost today is far more emotive than a life saved in some hard-to-glimpse future – hence the problems with justifying the war in Afghanistan. But health professionals have been rather slower to learn the same lesson.

That is why, for every parent reconsidering the offer of the cervical cancer vaccine for their daughter this morning, following the unexpected death of Natalie Morton, a 14-year-old from Coventry, there will be a GP or school nurse urging young women to have the jab anyway. Never mind that history is pitted with examples of vaccines that the public was falsely assured were safe: the experts reason that in every mass vaccination, there are bound to be a few casualties. That's the price we pay for the survival of the herd. Such arguments worked in the heyday of bacteriology, when the development of vaccines against rabies, typhoid, cholera and plague brought humanity protection against a succession of formerly mortal diseases. They retained support in the 1950s and 1960s, when further breakthroughs led to jabs against polio, measles, mumps and rubella. But that was a time when people could still recall the deaths of infant siblings from whooping cough and scarlet fever. As we became secure in our brave new disease-free world, that generational connection was lost.

The turning point was probably the 1976 American swine flu scare: "the epidemic that never was". Following expert advice, President Ford authorised the vaccination of 45million Americans. But two months later, as it became clear that the virus had run its course and the campaign had been unnecessary, reports emerged of isolated deaths and some vaccine recipients developing Guillain-Barre syndrome, an auto-immune reaction that can lead to paralysis.

[DJ MacWoW]

offer of the cervical cancer vaccine

This irritates me as this is a vaccine against a virus that can cause cancer and not a cancer vaccine.

[Roses0508]

During her pregnancy with me my mother was treated with DES to prevent miscarriage (she had lost a number of babies). Years later I discover that babies born from pregnancies where the mother was treated with DES are subject to all kinds of ugly results including an hitherto rare form of uterine cancer. Since the medical profession had no history with these issues, their natural response was to take a knife and cut it all out to be on the safe side.

My mother's miscarriages - she was RH negative. No need for the DES.

Let's just say I have a healthy skepticism about medical science. I wouldn't give a daughter of mine that injection unless she was very high risk.

[Smokin' Joe]

Contraction of the viruses which the vaccine is supposed to protect against is a behaviourally controlled risk. Granted, the behaviours involved are not just those of the girl, but any partners as well.

However, the risk is manageable and can be reduced or eliminated by having few sexual partners or abstinence, respectively.

The vaccine does not prevent all varieties of the virus, nor does having the virus invariably lead to cancer.

I think it should be up to the parents and the individual to assess the risks either way and make an informed decision.

Regardless, to call this a "cancer vaccine" is misleading.

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[netmilsmom]

Personally, I’m using the vaccine, but not by injecting it into my daughters.

I’m showing them the data and telling them that premarital sex is dangerous and can lead to cancer.

That’s the plan anyway. No way would I have this vaccine administered to my daughters as their reproductive organs bloom.

[Smokin' Joe]

I’m showing them the data and telling them that premarital sex is dangerous and can lead to cancer.

Good for you!

I hope that is sufficient to give them pause, and almost equally evil are a host of STDs, some of which will remain with them and affect them for their entire life (including the papilloma varieties the vaccine does not prevent) unless someone comes up with a cure. (it only takes one little herpe )