[wagglebee]

Polio and Hepatitus are also very rare diseases, yet some people weigh the the odds and their risks and get vaccinated for them.

Hepatitis vaccines are fairly new and not pushed the way this one is.

As far as the polio vaccine and polio being rare, YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. I would suggest you talk to your parents or grandparents about the fear of polio that swept through America every summer prior to the vaccine.

[HairOfTheDog]

Polio is now rare because widespread vaccination was implemented. Sometimes, diseases crop up that warrant that. Is this HPV one? I don’t know. That’s still to be decided.

[HairOfTheDog]

As far as the polio vaccine and polio being rare, YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. I would suggest you talk to your parents or grandparents about the fear of polio that swept through America every summer prior to the vaccine.

So don't assume I don't know what I'm talking about. I chose my examples carefully.

[DJ MacWoW]

My mother-in-law had polio at 3. She had one arm and leg atrophied. Her right arm was always small and useless. She had repeated surgeries on her left leg. Her parents were told that she’d never walk again. She did as no one told her that. Polio was a horrible scourge. My cousin Tim is in a wheelchair, since the age of eight, from polio. This HPV thing does NOT compare.