Get the shot, I understand that Mereck states that it also prevents males from getting genital warts.
I am buying stock in Merck. The amount of money spent on the vaccine in Texas alone will guarantee amazing profits for Merck. Consider there are over 450,000 students in Texas public schools at $360 to $600 dollar per treatment and an additional 29 million to cover low income and medicaid recipients Merck is the goose that laid the golden egg and Governor Perry is making sure we feed this goose.
I went to Merck?s web site. According to Merck, Gardasil only helps protect against Human Papillomavirus (HPV).
There are more than 100 HPV types of which Gardasil only helps to protect against 4 types.
These 4 types of HPV cause approximately 70% of cervical cancers. Gardasil does not protect against the remaining more than 96 types of HPV?s.
Gardasil will not protect against HPV types which you have already been exposed to.
With over 20 million people already infected with the virus Gardasil will be of NO BENEFIT. Why should it according to Merck for most infected people the virus goes away on it?s own.
When the virus does not go away it could develop into cervical cancer or genital warts. Of course as Merck?s web site explains Gardasil may not fully protect everyone who gets the vaccine.
Merck advises that with Gardasil the possible side effects range from pain, swelling and redness at the injection site, fever, nausea, dizziness and difficulty breathing and can not be administered to pregnant women or women planning to get pregnant.
Seems like paying a lot of money to protect a small portion of the public with a drug that may or may not work against a small percentage of the virus that in most cases will go away.
I'm against the ideal of rushing to administer a questionable treatment on my children without knowing the possible long range effects of this drug.
As an investor I'm jumping of the Perry bandwagon and joining his profiteering. With the money Perry is forcing Texan's to pay Merck I should be able to retire a whole lot sooner than planned