Posted on 02/03/2011 9:29:35 AM PST by jalisco555
To no one's surprise, a new clinical trial demonstrates that the human papilloma virus vaccine Gardasil is as good at protecting men as it is in protecting women, researchers reported Wednesday. A clinical trial in more than 4,000 boys and men demonstrated that the vaccine was more than 90% successful in preventing genital lesions caused by the four strains of HPV that the vaccine is active against, about the same level of protection demonstrated for women.
The vaccine is currently approved in the United States for both males and females over the age of 9, but current recommendations call for administration only to females. But the vaccine has been highly controversial, both because some view it as an implicit approval of sexual activity and because of its cost -- nearly $400 for a complete regimen of three doses. An estimated three-quarters of girls don't even start the regimen, and only about a third of those who do start it actually finish.
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I will believe 'they' are concerned about prevention when I see the public service campaigns that explicitly identify the transmission of HPV is through sexual activity. Until then I see profiteers and opportunists exploiting an opportunity AND the useful idiot progressives helping them do it.
Safe sex my *ss!
If you have sex with someone who isn’t infected, then Gardasil isn’t doing you any good. That’s the point. The only benefit you derive is from having sex with someone who is infected.
“The risk of a spouse cheating is far higher than the risk of a side effect of a vaccine”
What about the risk of a cheating spouse killing you?
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