[xzins]

The HPV vaccine has a good rate of success, and if chosen voluntarily, I see no problem with it. Since it directly attacks a particular virus, it is in no way parallel with something like a condom that sends the message of free sexuality.

It is instead a means of protecting women from HPV WHEREVER THEY MIGHT ENCOUNTER IT....even from their husbands who might be totally unaware they carry it.

Moreover, there is some research that suggests HPV is not always sexually transmitted:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2256864 However, the high prevalence of the infection among the virginal women indicated that transmission of HPV by nonsexual modes was common. Genital HPV infection is ubiquitous and in women is not exclusively a venereal disease.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection of the genital tract was assessed in 205 women and 111 spouses by clinical exam, colposcopy and histological examination of punch biopsies. All were patients referred to the colposcopy clinic: 43 were virgins and 162 women were sexually experienced. Among the virgins 51.2% had colposcopic evidence of HPV infection, 9 had microwarts and 1 had condylomata acuminata. 86.4% of these were confirmed histologically. Among the sexually active women 69.1% had colposcopic evidence of HPV, 20.5% had microwarts and 4.5% had condylomata acuminata. 37 had neoplasia. 85.7% of Hpv cases were confirmed histologically, as were 8.0% of women without evidence of HPV. 77.1% of the 96 husbands whose wives were free of infection had HPV. Since many of the virgins, including 2 daughters of a woman with cervical cancer, had genital warts, HPV is probably transmitted by formites as well as by sexual contact.

A "formite", as I understand it is an object.

[DJ MacWoW]

Gardasil is not what it is claiming to be.

Gardasil Important Questions and Answers

Is Gardasil a “cervical cancer vaccine”?

No. Gardasil has no effect on cervical cancer whatsoever.

Does Gardasil actually “protect your daughter’s future from cervical cancer and genital warts”?

No, it doesn’t.

Why not?

Gardasil offers SOME protection against SOME of the Types of HPV that have been linked to cervical cancer.

There are over 40 Types of HPV, and 15 of them have been linked to cervical cancer and/or genital warts. Gardasil has been developed to vaccinate against the 4 Types that have the highest correlation with cancer and genital warts.

However, unlike the smallpox vaccine, for example, Gardasil does not grant full immunity to those 4 Types of HPV. Additionally, in the studies offered to the FDA in Merck’s application for approval, data indicated that Gardasil MAY INCREASE your daughter’s risk of developing cervical disease if she already had one of the relevant strains of HPV at the time of vaccination (Appendix E, p13 & 25).

[wagglebee]

My biggest problem with the vaccine is that I believe it was rushed by Merck to make profits.

It HAS NOT been properly tested and there is more than enough data to suggest that it is actually dangerous.

The fact remains that most HPV is sexually transmitted and while many girls are at risk here, many are not.

[Diogenesis]

Hi FRiend,
You cited an older study.

Here is a more recent one.

High risk genital papillomavirus infections are not spread vertically
Dillner J.1, *, 2; Andersson-Ellström A.3; Hagmar B.4; Schiller J.5
Reviews in Medical Virology, Volume 9, Number 1, March 1999 , pp. 23-29(7)
Abstract: ... The conclusions arrived at can be summarised as:
(1) There is overwhelming epidemiological evidence that
the only quantitatively important mode of transmission of infection
with oncogenic genital HPV types is sexual.
(2) There is also evidence that benign genital HPV types
can be transmitted sexually, but the epidemiological data
on the benign virus types are less extensive and less clear.
(3) Perinatal HPV transmission is unequivocally demonstrated
only for the rare disease juvenile respiratory papillomatosis.