Oprah has HPV vaccine show

[live love laugh]

Doctor Marie Savard "Women's Health Expert" says give HPV vaccine to 11 and 12 year old girls. It should be done because:

1) The vaccine works best in young, pre-sexual girls
2) A mandated vaccine will protect underprivileged girls most likely to go untreated
3) The cancerous condition that results from HPV will run rampant like Hepatitis if we don't mandate vaccinations

:wtf:

Yet she also says, HPV is an extremely common virus spread skin-to-skin. It causes plantars warts, genital warts, etc. Eighty percent of people will be exposed to it--95% of the immune systems of the infected people will kill off HPV naturally. HPV may turn cancerous in the small population whose immune systems do not fight it off. All pap smears are done to detect HPV. There is an HPV test to tell if you have fought off the virus or not. The vaccine will fight off the cancer by 70%.

The government says the optimum time to vaccinate is before you are exposed to the virus--ie. 11 years old. (Does...not...compute--80% of us are exposed to it but not when we are young???)

The vaccine boosts immunity for...get this...five years. So, an 11 year old who is vaccinated is not protected by the time they become sexually active at 16 -- or at least the manufacturers don't know if they are protected after five years because the vaccine makers haven't done enough studies to tell if booster vaccines are needed.

Then there's the mandate. Mandatory vaccines for contagious diseases are understandable for the common welfare. Mandatory vaccinations for noncontagious diseases make no sense.


I tried googling this doctor to find out if she has political ties. She seemed to really be selling the vaccine. Her argument for it has too many holes in it.

To Oprah's credit: The audience was allowed to ask questions and many were very intelligent questions although most were about whether the vaccine encourages sex in adolescents. That is the least of the things that people should worry about with regard to the HPV vaccine.

[live love laugh]

1. Nobody cares about this...nobody at all? n/t

[Colobo]

2. The vaccine is a start, but...

it seems like it's not very effective yet.

[live love laugh]

3. It's good to have, but there's not need to mandate it. And then there's

today's money-centered research methods...I don't trust the safety of it.

[orleans]

4. i don't know what to say. i guess i'm glad she's talking about it

i'm still soooo undecided about it

[mondo joe]

5. Actually, DOES compute. The types of HPV that can result in cervical cancer are sexually

transmitted.

http://www.ppacca.org/site/pp.asp?c=kuJYJeO4F&b=139497

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is a common infection that affects skin and mucous membranes, and is the cause of warts. Some types cause warts in the genital area — others cause common skin warts in other areas such as the hands or feet. Approximately 100 viral types of HPV have been identified, and about one third of these are associated with sexually transmitted genital infections (Koutsky & Kiviat, 1999).