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Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Merck & Co.’s Gardasil, a vaccine used to prevent cervical cancer in women, won U.S. regulatory approval for preventing genital warts in boys.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the vaccine for use in males ages 9 to 26, Merck said today in a statement.
Gardasil protects against a sexually transmitted infection called human papillomavirus, or HPV, that can lead to cervical cancer in women and genital warts and cancer of the penis and anus in men. ...
Originally posted by badBERTHA
just how prevalent are genital warts anyhoo?? I don't know anyone who has ever had them... my son has had the chat about condoms (he's 15 and not sexually active that I'm aware - pretty certain of that) and I feel that some johnnies and a bit of common sense along with decent personal hygiene should be suffice for most dudes..
Am I being ignorant?
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Originally posted by badBERTHA
just how prevalent are genital warts anyhoo?? I don't know anyone who has ever had them... my son has had the chat about condoms (he's 15 and not sexually active that I'm aware - pretty certain of that) and I feel that some johnnies and a bit of common sense along with decent personal hygiene should be suffice for most dudes..
Am I being ignorant?
B
Originally posted by marg6043
... I am still concern about the trials If I had a young son or daughter I would wait few years to see how the vaccine has done on the sector of the population that had gotten it.
I don't know but I hope one of the side effects is not impotence the ability of have children in males.
Originally posted by badBERTHA
just how prevalent are genital warts anyhoo?? I don't know anyone who has ever had them... my son has had the chat about condoms (he's 15 and not sexually active that I'm aware - pretty certain of that) and I feel that some johnnies and a bit of common sense along with decent personal hygiene should be suffice for most dudes..
Am I being ignorant?
B
Originally posted by Hazystars
Does anyone else find it strange that there is a vaccine for an issue the medical community cannot even test for? HPV screening for males is non-existent.
Originally posted by Flighty
I'd say avoid it like the plague!!
Just wondering.......
Aside from Gardasil......
What I'd like to know is what side effects mulitiple vaccines will have on young peoples health.? Do they even test these things in combinations?
If both this vaccine AND the Swine Flu Vaccine are taken, how will taking both of these effect young peoples health?