Polio HAS NOT been eradicated worldwide, only smallpox has. An outbreak of polio would be devestating and could spread very quickly.
The difference between polio and HPV is that polio spreads through NORMAL contact and HPV is sexually transmitted. A responsible person is 100% immune from HPV WITHOUT a shot.
Normal people have sex, it’s at least as common as swimming in swimming pools.
I understand the controversy. I don’t have a real dog in the fight, I don’t have a daughter, and I’m married and not likely to need it for myself. I still think it may make sense for the vaccine to exist, it has a market.
Are they saying that ONLY children should have this vaccine? Or would they recommend it for any adult woman who may be at risk? I ask, because the debate seems to revolve entirely around kids and they don’t seem to me to be the whole market.
It’s as if you want to ban the vaccine for everyone because you WANT the threat of disease to help scare your kids into not having sex. Or... you think that once vaccinated, all other caution and restraint will be thrown to the wind? I have only a casual interest in this, so help me out here.