Originally posted by Gregor100
Its a vaccine for a #ing deadly disease.... As the guy a few above said, some people don't know what's good for them. Jesus christ, if it doesn't work it wont kill you so why not get it if all it will do is give you a smaller chance of contracting the disease?

The vaccine is not for cancer.

The vaccine is for HPV

The vaccine is for 4 out of 127 strands of HPV.

As for the "why not?". Simple. The mother, who is the caretaker, said NO.

Also, as has been pointed out times before in this thread, there is legitimate reasons not to trust big pharma and their vaccines. Did you see the material in earlier posts that addressed this?

Originally posted by Lucid Lunacy
Also, as has been pointed out times before in this thread, there is legitimate reasons not to trust big pharma and their vaccines. Did you see the material in earlier posts that addressed this?

Including, and this is important, the fact that the New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial recommending caution with this particular vaccine?

People avoiding the HPV vaccine are not only doing so in the strange misconception that their children couldn't possibly be sexually active in their teen years.

Many are doing so because reputable mainstream medical sources are questioning it. Some doctors have even suggested that the cancers prevented by providing immunity to the 2 cancer-causing strains of HPV the vaccine protects against, will simply be replaced by cancers caused by other strains of HPV.

There is a good likelihood that this vaccine will prevent some cancers. But there is also a distinct possibility that it is not as effective as marketed. This is a really gray area.

And this is not a disease like influenza or measles where one can make a strong case for vaccination for "herd immunity" purposes. If she refuses the vaccine, it puts only herself at risk.