Originally posted by Royal76
Forget about the money. If it works it will keep women from having cervical cancer, and certain STV's, this far outways any money these company's make. If it works, who freaken cares, they will deserve it. As a son, a brother, and future husband, i love this drug, IF IT WORKS.
That is the problem. It is not a cure for cervical cancer. The girls who take this vaccine can still get cervical cancer. The only thing it does is supposedly prevent 2 different types of HPV. The problem is that there are more than just 2 different types of HPV virus.
The other problem is they know it works for the short term, but have no idea about the long term. From the research I did on Google they still don't know if it will be effective for the long term.
They subject the girls now to this new vaccine, then 10 or 20 years later they are wondering why the vaccine didn't work? More than likely will say that person never got the vaccine, or come up with some bogus information to protect the vaccine.
The only response I was able to see as far as long term effects was that the Sweeds were doing long term tests on this drug. Basically keep an eye on what the Sweeds are doing. In other words it is still in the testing phase in Sweedan.
Not to mention there is a three shot regimine, and each shot by itself costs well over $300. Big money for the pharma companies. You would be paying well over $900 more closely to $1000 for a vaccine that really hasen't been tested as thoroughly as it should have been.
The FDA also recently passed it. I'm thinking of all the other drugs the FDA recently passed, and then had to retract such as Vioxx. Do we really want to risk our daughters lives with this?
Ok how would you know any risk until 5 yrs down the road when studies link the vaccine to infertility or some other serious health factors?
