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There is no excuse for the coercion of girls to take this harmful treatment (or for the message it sends, that girls are for fornication).

I see you didn't read the article.

I think it is difficult to try to explain this virus to people who have their minds set on the topic. They don't realize that 80-90% of women will contact this by age 30, but luckily, 99% + fight it off, and do not get the cervical cancer.

Also, it is amazing how few men realize that they get this virus and that they are the primary means of transmitting, but even fewer realize they can get related cancers from it. In fact, some doctors recommend that young men also get this vaccination. If men and women both received this vaccination, it could most likely be eliminated, like polio was.

However, no matter how sound the science is and good intention are on eliminating this virus...the anti-vaccination crowd is going to be against it. I have basically given up trying to explain it to these types as they really do not understand it from a science standpoint.