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To: BenKenobi
Not only that, but it doesn’t even inoculate. Even if you had 80 percent of the people getting the ‘vaccine’, it won’t bring out herd immunity.

HPV - doesn’t work that way, sadly. It’s not like MMR or DPT, where once you get above a certain percentage, you start seeing the effects of herd immunity.

Actually, herd immunity applies here, too. Herd immunity means that the chain of infection is broken, so that even if a person is exposed to the disease, they cannot transmit it to another person. This graphic illustrates the principle. The means of disease transmission does not affect the process; the pertinent factor is that the disease is passed from person to person. Herd immunity does not work, for example, with tetanus.

40 posted on 12/22/2011 7:22:48 AM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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That’s because Tetanus isn’t a communicable disease. Neither is HPV. The difference between the two is that there are substantial variances in disease vectors that are dependent on human behaviour. This is why even if you inoculated 80 percent of people, the disease would still be endemic.


47 posted on 12/22/2011 7:36:14 AM PST by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman! 10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government)
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