From the Gardasil page:
INFORMATION ABOUT GARDASIL
http://www.gardasil.com/hpv/hpv-types/hpv-transmission/index.html?WT.mc_id=GL0EU&MTD=2
In boys and young men ages 9 to 26, GARDASIL helps protect against 90% of genital warts cases.
So, we should vaccinate males because it helps protect against warts?
SOME forms of genital warts transmitted from male to female can cause cervical cancer. Gardasil DOES NOT protect from ALL genital warts. Gardasil also DOES NOT protect from HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes 1 and 2 and on and on. Someone going to tell these little ones this information, probably not. Another sad day for children.
More than half of all Head and Neck cancer diagnosed now is caused by HPV. Warts on your weenie=cancer in the other person depending on where the contact is - Cervix, throat or anus. Also causes cancer on the weenie.
Yes, but there's more. Also HPV is detected in 42% to 80% of penile cancers (Partridge and Koutsky). Also if you vaccinate males, that's one less infection vector for females.
Of course, for some it's an article of faith that the CDC, FDA, NCI, and other alphabet soup health and medicine institutions are corrupt liars trying to take freedom and kill people to profit lobbyists. And it's all Perry's fault. /s
This recommendation shouldn't surprise anyone. Gardasil was approved for use in males by the FDA in 2009.
Also...
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/631/103/
FACTS about HPV:
There are more than 100 different types of HPV and at least 15 of them are oncogenic (potentially cancerous).
The current vaccines target only 2 oncogenic strains: HPV-16 and HPV-18.
The relationship between infection at a young age and development of cancer 20 to 40 years later is not known.
HPV is the most prevalent sexually transmitted infection, with an estimated 79% infection rate over a lifetime.
The virus does not appear to be very harmful because almost all HPV infections are cleared by the immune system.
In a few women, infection persists and some women may develop precancerous cervical lesions and eventually cervical cancer.
It is currently impossible to predict in which women this will occur and why.
Likewise, it is impossible to predict exactly what effect vaccination of young girls and women will have on the incidence of cervical cancer 20 to 40 years from now.
The vaccine’s effectiveness is confirmed for only five years.
The true risk /benefit of the vaccine can be determined only through clinical trials and long-term follow-up.
I'm not supporting gardasil. At all.
But your comment isn't helping.
"Genital Warts" is extremely nasty, and HPV is known to cause cancer in both men and women. Attempting to minimize the seriousness of the disease is ill advised.
Judicious mating, though, strikes me as a better preventative than a poorly tested vaccine.