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HPV vaccine " a great big public health experiment,"
Researcher blasts HPV marketing
http://www.kpcnews.com/articles/2007...cine/hpv01.txt BY CINDY BEVINGTON LEBANON, N.H. -- A lead researcher who spent 20 years developing the vaccine for humanpapilloma virus says the HPV vaccine is not for younger girls, and that it is "silly" for states to be mandating it for them. Not only that, she says it's not been tested for effectiveness in younger girls, and administering the vaccine to girls as young as 9 may not even protect them at all. And, in the worst-case scenario, instead of serving to reduce the numbers of cervical cancers within 25 years, such a vaccination crusade actually could cause the numbers to go up. "Giving it to 11-year-olds is a great big public health experiment," said Diane M. Harper, who is a scientist, physician, professor and the director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire "It is silly to mandate vaccination of 11- to 12-year-old girls There also is not enough evidence gathered on side effects to know that safety is not an issue." Internationally recognized as a pioneer in the field, Harper has been studying HPV and a possible vaccine for several of the more than 100 strains of HPV for 20 years - most of her adult life............ Thanks Vince |
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HPV vaccine " a great big public health experiment,"
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bigvince wrote: Researcher blasts HPV marketing http://www.kpcnews.com/articles/2007...cine/hpv01.txt Wow, March 14, and already posted anyway. Thanks for the bulletin, Vince. Real cutting-edge stuff. -- David Wright :: alphabeta at copper.net These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "[Being against Gardasil] is like being against a cure for blindness because it'll encourage masturbation." -- Bill Maher |
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