When we require vaccines for school, we get more children immunized. When we get more children immunized, we prevent diseases—including cancer. When we have a vaccine that works and is safe, we should be making sure that it is given to as many people as possible, and requiring a vaccine for school does just that.
When we require vaccines—including HPV— for school, we not only give our children an education, we give them the best chance at a healthy future. As a service to our readers, Harvard Health Publishing provides access to our library of archived content. Please note the date of last review or update on all articles. No content on this site, regardless of date, should ever be used as a substitute for direct medical advice from your doctor or other qualified clinician. Stem cells are used to treat so many different serious illnesses, many people now take samples of umbilical cord blood to store in case their child develops a disease such as certain cancers and disorders of the blood.
And half a dozen studies of real girls have found the vaccine is already cutting risk of cin3 precancer by about half, as expected. That turned out to be untrue. Something similar is going on with the HPV vaccine.
When a child falls ill with any rare disease, some people prefer to blame the HPV vaccine rather than live with not knowing the cause. Tara, there is a great deal of evidence that most all cervical cancer is caused by the HPV strains. You guys always come up with some reason not to vaccinate. How much money has Merck given Harvard Medical school over the years? Or the AAP? Or any of the places Dr. McCarthy works for or writes for? Sadly, the kids who are having life altering reactions to the HPV vaccine are being ignored.
Merck destroying lives and not taking responsibility. So could never getting a license…or never leaving the house, for that matter. If an elementary school is a breeding ground for sexually transmitted viruses, then it needs to be shut down and there should be substantial criminal persecution of faculty and parents. All the more shameful to see fear-mongering articles like this from institutions like Harvard.
Whatever happened to the risk-benefit ratio we learned about in chemistry? Opt-out provisions are inherently unfair to parents who oppose HPV vaccination; 4. Limited health care dollars should not be directed toward cervical cancer prevention; and 5. The vaccine is expensive and potential problems with supply suggest that mandates should not be implemented until insurance coverage and supply issues are resolved.
Next, we critically evaluate the following critiques of HPV vaccination itself: 1. Giving girls HPV vaccine implies tacit consent to engage in sexual activity; 2. Giving girls this vaccine will confer a false sense of protection from sexually transmitted infections and will lead to sexual disinhibition; 3.
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