HPV Vaccine

[gladgirl]

They make other vaccinations requirements for school children. So why not this one? Who knows maybe someday they will find that it can be passed some other way besides sexual contact and even if not who would want their sisters, daughters or mothers to die from this awful disease? Take it from me, losing your mother when she is only 36 is a painful experience.
P.S. or at any age I'm sure.

[Dorkalicious]

I see where you are coming from, and actually, I'm not opposed to them vaccinating the way you say.

I have actually been diagnosed with HPV, the simple fact that the person who gave it to me didn't know (because males have no way of being tested) is a scary thought for most women --and men, I'm sure.

Luckily, it is high risk, and a very small amount of women actually end up with the cancer. In most cases, it ends up dying off....

[Ozme52]

HPV, per se, is not an STD. Most of humanity carries it... and, unfortunately, if introduced into the vagina, it can trigger cervical cancer. I say it's not an STD... no more than influenza is an STD... which can also be introduced into the vagina via sexual contact. (That's not to say the medicos, or more likely the politicians, won't reclassify it as such...)

We all carry millions of viruses that do no harm... or the incidence of harm is so low that they've never correlated the virus to any serious condition.

However, there is now so much computational power available that many otherwise tenusous relationships are being observed... but some are so slight that it will be many years before they can be clinically 'tested' to determine their validity.

None-the-less, when we do get information that even a low risk association has been made, then why not do something that could ensure your long term health. In general, I'm pro-vaccines.

[Dorkalicious]

HPV, per se, is not an STD. Most of humanity carries it... and, unfortunately, if introduced into the vagina, it can trigger cervical cancer. I say it's not an STD... no more than influenza is an STD... which can also be introduced into the vagina via sexual contact. (That's not to say the medicos, or more likely the politicians, won't reclassify it as such...)

We all carry millions of viruses that do no harm... or the incidence of harm is so low that they've never correlated the virus to any serious condition.

However, there is now so much computational power available that many otherwise tenusous relationships are being observed... but some are so slight that it will be many years before they can be clinically 'tested' to determine their validity.

None-the-less, when we do get information that even a low risk association has been made, then why not do something that could ensure your long term health. In general, I'm pro-vaccines.

I must say, I like your approach better on this topic. Although to me it's really just another label or something that I could potentially pass on to any of my partners... Or receive again in the future after ridding myself of it....