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Vaccines have always been scary, and as was mentioned, often cause terrible harm instead of good.
Harper is a professor and director at the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at Dartmouth, and told the publication that there "is not enough evidence gathered on side effects to know that safety is not an issue."
Harper, who has spent much of the last 20 years studying dozens of strains of HPV, said all of her trials have been with subjects ages 15 to 25, and personally she believes the new vaccine could offer help to women ages 18 and up.
This vaccine should not be mandated for 11-year-old girls," Harper said. "It's not been tested in little girls for efficacy. At 11, these girls don't get cervical cancer – they won't know for 25 years if they will get cervical cancer."
She said the vaccine is not a cancer vaccine or cure – it just prevents development of a virus that could lead to cancer.
"For the U.S. what that means is the vaccine will prevent about half of high-grade precursors of cancer but half will still occur, so hundreds of thousands of women who are vaccinated with Gardasil and get yearly Pap testing will still get a high-grade dysplasia (cell abnormality)," she said.
Harper also reported that the drug company "bridged" the studies to apply to young girls. That means that Merck assumed that because it proved effective in the older girls, it also would be effective in the younger girls.
And she warned more than 40 cases of Guillian-Barre syndrome – an immune disorder that results in tingling, numbness and even paralysis of the muscles – have been reported in girls who got the HPV vaccine in combination with a meningitis vaccine.
She said the vaccine's purpose has been misinterpreted and mis-marketed so that too many may believe if they've had the vaccine they are immune to cancer – when they are not.
While calling the vaccine "good" Harper said it is important to realize that if women get the vaccine, but not an routine Pap smear, "what will happen in the U.S. is that we will have an increase in cervical cancer, because the Pap screening does a very good job."
Texas Gov. Rick Perry in February issued an executive order requiring those vaccinations, but the state House of Representatives in Texas has approved by a 6-1 margin a plan to rescind that.
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
The whole thing reeks of a scam.
here we are at the cusp of erradicating a disease that renders women infertile and/or kills them and people are talking about CHOICE
people didn't tell me it was my choice to have any of my other vaccinations.
i really think the problem is that some people can't imagine the fact that one day their little girls will engage in sexual activity.
people didn't tell me it was my choice to have any of my other vaccinations.
i really think the problem is that some people can't imagine the fact that one day their little girls will engage in sexual activity.
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
here we are at the cusp of erradicating a disease
people didn't tell me it was my choice to have any of my other vaccinations.
i really think the problem is that some people can't imagine the fact that one day their little girls will engage in sexual activity.