I smite thee! ...The Diary of Nod

HPV Vaccinations: Cure or Cancer?

I was really interested in the HPV vaccine that's out now...until I heard how few women die in the U.S. from the cervical cancer it can cause. About 3,700 in 2005. The flu kills twenty times more people. Extreme weather kills at least half as many.

We don't know the drawbacks of the vaccine. Long term exposure (and protection) are unknown. To save about 1,000 women a year (a very small gain), this is a large risk. Take the huge amounts of money going to Merck for the most expensive children's vaccine ever and work on the existing methods that have given the U.S.A. some of the lowest rates in the world.

Per Madeline Boscoe of the Canadian Women's Health Network, "[They] die because we don't know what to do, they died because we weren't caring for them. Either they didn't come in for care, or we didn't follow up on them."

posted by Lachlan @ 12:47 PM