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Will boys boycott this vaccine?
I decided a few years ago not to give my daughters the Gardasil vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. I felt and still feel it wasn't tested enough and has too many side effects.
The shot used to be for pre-teen and teenaged girls. But now boys may get a chance to get stuck. Merck is seeking FDA approval for boys ages 9 to 26 to get the vaccination to prevent genital warts.
Merck also wants permission to expand the shot's age range to women as old as 45, even though Gardasil is designed to prevent cervical cancer, not cure it.
Meanwhile, information about negative side effects continues to mount. As one doctor whose oldest daughter was devastated by the shot told CBS News: "As the father of three girls, I've had to ask myself why I let my eldest one get an unproven vaccine against a few strains of a nonlethal virus that can be dealt with in many more effective ways. It's not like they are at high risk. It was the regrettable acceptance of the vaccine party line that [mis]led me."
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Comments
One doctor and one patient a public health recommendation do not make. Yes- there have been reported adverse events, but until these events are causally linked to the vaccine (rather than subjectively linked)- they are only media soundbites.
Posted by: Laura J. | January 7, 2009 3:22 PM
By the time our daughter would be old enough for the vaccine, I am hoping that they will have the kinks (like pain)worked out. As someone who has had 3 irregular PAP smears, including one during a pregnancy, I can tell you the retesting and biopsies required as follow-up are not fun. I will do anything to prevent my daughter from having to go through this. Yes, while preteens are not at high risk, 20-year-old college women who are regularly having sex ARE at risk. By the time young women are at risk, it is too late to get the vaccine. I think that logic is flawed.
Posted by: Carrie Ann Perez | January 8, 2009 9:51 AM
The adverse events are linked. The aluminum adjuvant alone able destroy 35% of the neurons in rat studies. This comes from a neuroscientist in Canada. Polysorbate 80 and Boric acid also cytotoxins and cause cell death/ damage.Gardasil is a neurotoxin,a demyelinator
detergent. It is garbage.
Posted by: INV. | April 1, 2009 2:28 PM