By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. Provided by: Johns Hopkins University

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HPV Vaccine Controversy Continues By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Posted Wed, Mar 21, 2007, 10:23 am PDT

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  • 1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Aug 06, 2007, 5:48 pm PDT

    Cervical Cancer is not an airborne disease. For anyone to say that schools must require this is wrong. First we need to have vaccinations for airborne diseases like mono. What are the side effects of this shot? Will girls have fertility problems later on in life?

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  • 2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Apr 26, 2008, 1:35 pm PDT

    My child would be in greater danger by having unprotected sex than by not having this vaccine. I honestly believe the poor girls given this vaccine are no more than walking petri dish for the pharma companies to develop a full-spectrum cancer vaccine. Does anyone really know what the ill-effects may be in say, 15 or 20 years? And, it may have the potential to do more harm than good. Actually, how effective can it be if these girl will still be required to undergo Pap smears for full protection against cervical cancer? We are already discovering that our childhood vaccines are wearing off in early adulthood (remember the great mumps outbreak on the college campuses? Most of those infected were previously vaccinated for mumps as babies). HPV is communicable through unprotected sex, not casual contact and it IS preventable without this extremely suspect vaccine.

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  • 3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Apr 26, 2008, 1:35 pm PDT

    My child would be in greater danger by having unprotected sex than by not having this vaccine. I honestly believe the poor girls given this vaccine are no more than walking petri dish for the pharma companies to develop a full-spectrum cancer vaccine. Does anyone really know what the ill-effects may be in say, 15 or 20 years? And, it may have the potential to do more harm than good. Actually, how effective can it be if these girl will still be required to undergo Pap smears for full protection against cervical cancer? We are already discovering that our childhood vaccines are wearing off in early adulthood (remember the great mumps outbreak on the college campuses? Most of those infected were previously vaccinated for mumps as babies). HPV is communicable through unprotected sex, not casual contact and it IS preventable without this extremely suspect vaccine.

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  • 4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Apr 26, 2008, 1:35 pm PDT

    My child would be in greater danger by having unprotected sex than by not having this vaccine. I honestly believe the poor girls given this vaccine are no more than walking petri dish for the pharma companies to develop a full-spectrum cancer vaccine. Does anyone really know what the ill-effects may be in say, 15 or 20 years? And, it may have the potential to do more harm than good. Actually, how effective can it be if these girl will still be required to undergo Pap smears for full protection against cervical cancer? We are already discovering that our childhood vaccines are wearing off in early adulthood (remember the great mumps outbreak on the college campuses? Most of those infected were previously vaccinated for mumps as babies). HPV is communicable through unprotected sex, not casual contact and it IS preventable without this extremely suspect vaccine.

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