Controversial HPV Vaccine Causing One Death Per Month: FDA Report

[ilovekittens]

Anti-vaccination paranoia is a little ridiculous, I think. The fact is, the development of vaccination against communicable disease was probably the greatest public health achievement of the 20th century. Small pox no longer exists - no longer exists! - because of vaccines. Polio is largely gone in the developed world because of Salk and Sabin. Measles, mumps, rubella, diphteria, pertussis, varicella are no longer the scourge of childhood as they were 50 years ago.
There is a tiny risk of adverse effects with vaccines, sure, but there is a small risk of complications from any other medical intervention - surgery or prescription medicine or CT scans with contrast, etc. That tiny risk is generally worth taking, if the risk of communicating the disease is anything more than negligible. Something like 75% of all adults of a certain age carry one or more strains of HPV. HPV is a major risk factor for the development of cervical cancer. If that risk can be reduced with a simple vaccine, then it makes good sense to me that its use becomes the standard.

 

[Dori1]

Anti-vaccination paranoia is a little ridiculous, I think. Something like 75% of all adults of a certain age carry one or more strains of HPV. HPV is a major risk factor for the development of cervical cancer. If that risk can be reduced with a simple vaccine, then it makes good sense to me that its use becomes the standard.

I agree with you. The truth is, however, that HPV is only a risk if you, or your partner, are having or have had, unprotected sex with an infected person. There are only a few of the many strains of the HPV virus that are associated with cervical cancer. The best protection is to teach your children to “be a virgin and marry a virgin.” That said, if my adult daughter asked me if she should have the vaccine because she was engaged to marry a man who had lived a promiscuous lifestyle before converting; I’d approve the vaccine. While I think it should be an option; I do not believe it should become a required vaccine.

The association of the HBV vaccine and MS has been debunked. However, the association with Guillan Barre syndrome is possible with any viral infection or vaccine. The incidence is extremely low. For those in the medical profession who are at risk for exposure, or others (such as police officers, correctional officers, etc.) The benefits of protection against a potentially fatal illness with no cure definitely outweigh the very small risk of such significant side effects. That said, it is very difficult for the rare patient who does have such side effects. My prayers and thoughts are with the previous poster.

 

[paxpaixpaz]

Im not opposed to vaccines on the whole. As i stated previously, our children were immunized as children, but we did wait 6 mos like the europeans do so that their nervous systems would be better developed.

What i dont agreed with is the drug companies, with the help of government agenices, creating a scare that has no basis in truth. As with the hep b vaccine, 14,000 cases were reported per year, and then all of a sudden it jumped to millions. What is wrong with that picture. They started vaccinating babies in the hospital with the hep b vaccine before they even left the hospital! I dont believe children should be vaccinated against this disease, i dont think adults should either, unless they are in a profession where there is great risk to their health, ie, healthcare workers, etc. I was a secretary at a doctors office, and was pushed into getting the vaccine by my office manager, basically stating, if i dont get the vaccine i wasnt a team player. At my particular office, the office workers did come in contact with potentially dangerous subjects, but that is only because the office manager and doctors, allowed biohazard products to be brought into our break room, etc.

Again, i am not anti-vaccine, i am anti uneccessary vaccines that people and children dont need.

I appreciate the empathy from other posters regarding my disability, where my sadness and frustration comes from are the many children who are vaccinated and become ill or die after the vaccine, and the poor parents have little recourse to identifying the situation. Theyre doctors and drug companies usually say, well they were born sick or disabled. At least i am older and survived such as it is, to be able to say, i used to be healthy and one person, now im sick all of the time and a totally different person than i was before the vaccine, there is no voice for the babies.

Peace,
Nancy

 

[ilovekittens]

I agree with you. The truth is, however, that HPV is only a risk if you, or your partner, are having or have had, unprotected sex with an infected person. There are only a few of the many strains of the HPV virus that are associated with cervical cancer. The best protection is to teach your children to “be a virgin and marry a virgin.”

But the world where only virgins marry virgins is fairy-land. I hope and expect that my precious 4 year-old daughter will live nothing but a chaste and pure life until she marries at the age of 26 (after finishing medical school, I envision). But even if that is the case, if the otherwise upstanding young man whom she chooses to marry happens to have had a couple of sexual indiscretions in his past, my daughter then would be at risk of contracting HPV, through no fault of her own.

 

[Dori1]

But the world where only virgins marry virgins is fairy-land. But even if that is the case, if the otherwise upstanding young man whom she chooses to marry happens to have had a couple of sexual indiscretions in his past, my daughter then would be at risk of contracting HPV, through no fault of her own.

Read the other posts in the thread and you will know that I am well aware of the threat in the general population. And, as I stated in my post that you partially quoted, I would approve the vaccine for anyone, even my own daughter in that very situation.