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weak no texas 11 and 12 year olds ever get pregnant
the parentsnoone has said anything about the complications arising from receivers already pregnant, and the possible preggo tests for 11 year olds 3 times in a row
*crickets chirping*
What have been the complications?
Millions In U.S. Infected With HPV
Study Finds Virus Strikes a Third of Women by Age 24
By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 28, 2007; A01
More than one-third of American women are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), which in rare cases can lead to cervical cancer, by the time they are 24 years old, according to a study being published today.
The new estimates suggest that there are 7.5 million girls and women 14 to 24 years old infected with the microbe -- about two-thirds more than an earlier but less comprehensive study had found.
Overall, about one-quarter of women under age 60 are infected at any given time, making HPV by far the most common sexually transmitted disease in the country.
News of the higher-than-expected prevalence of HPV infection was balanced by the discovery that only 2.2 percent of women were carrying one of the two virus strains most likely to lead to cervical cancer -- about half the rate found in previous surveys.
The lead researcher cautioned the findings do not mean that HPV infection rates are rising, only that they are higher than previously thought.
"For us, it's just a different measurement -- and a more accurate one," said Eileen F. Dunne, a physician and epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The estimate comes from the federal government's ongoing National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which provides the clearest snapshot of the U.S. population's health through dozens of measurements, laboratory tests and survey questions.
The new findings, published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, are likely to further encourage use of a vaccine against HPV approved in June by the Food and Drug Administration for females 9 to 26. Its maker, Merck, until recently was lobbying state legislatures to mandate vaccination of middle-school girls -- a step that more than 18 states are moving toward.
In its just-completed session, Virginia's General Assembly enacted legislation, which is now before the governor, requiring the vaccine in schoolgirls. Texas's governor earlier this month issued an executive order doing the same thing.
"Our perspective is that many women would benefit from the protection that [the vaccine] would provide," said Richard M. Haupt, the executive director for medical affairs at Merck Vaccines. The company is running studies trying to prove the vaccine's usefulness in women 25 to 45, and also in boys and men 9 to 23.
Some parents have objected to school mandates for HPV vaccination of girls, arguing that because the infection is transmitted only through sexual contact, it can be avoided by choice. Others believe the vaccine may lower inhibitions against sexual activity, although there is no evidence that fear of HPV infection is a reason many teenagers abstain.
There are dozens of strains of HPV, but only some can lead to cancer. Two -- HPV-16 and HPV-18 -- are responsible for about 70 percent of cervical cancers worldwide. The Merck vaccine protects against both, as well as two other strains that cause genital warts.
Most of the time a woman's immune system clears the virus within weeks, although repeated reinfections are possible. In some cases, however, the virus becomes incorporated in cervical cells and can cause malignant changes.
Cervical cancer was once the leading cause of cancer death in American women. Routine screening with Pap smears has reduced deaths dramatically in the last three decades. Last year, there were about 9,700 new cases of cervical cancer in the United States and 3,700 deaths. About 85 percent of the women who died had never had a Pap smear.
Worldwide, cervical cancer is responsible for about 235,000 deaths a year, but only 17,000 occur in industrialized countries.
In the 2003-2004 round of the national health survey, about 2,000 females aged 14 to 59 submitted self-collected vaginal swabs. Laboratory testing detected HPV in 27 percent of them. In the 14-to-24 age group, the rate was 34 percent. The highest prevalence -- 45 percent -- was in women age 20 to 24.
HPV also infects boys and men, in whom it can cause genital warts and anal cancer. Males were not tested in the survey, although researchers are trying to come up with ways to do that, Dunne said.
An earlier study of college students found that more than 50 percent acquired HPV within four years of first sexual intercourse. In the new survey, HPV infection was more likely in women under age 25, in unmarried women, and in women with two or more partners, especially in the year before testing.
The Merck vaccine is a three-shot course costing about $360. The committee that advises CDC on vaccine policy recommended its routine use in 11- and 12-year-old girls to protect them against the four strains before they become sexually active.
Although infection produces antibodies, they do not appear to prevent future reinfection, said Lawrence R. Stanberry, a vaccine researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
"This is a situation where the vaccine really looks like it provides much better immunity than what you would get if you allowed yourself to become naturally infected," he said.
Whether the immunity will last a lifetime is uncertain. Preliminary evidence suggests it may start to dwindle after five years. A vaccine being developed by GlaxoSmithKline, which targets only HPV-16 and HPV-18, contains an antibody-boosting "adjuvant" that may provide longer-lasting immunity.
Merck, which sells its product under the trade name Gardasil, has been lobbying for laws requiring the vaccine for schoolgirls. After criticism from politicians and editorial writers, it recently said it will stop doing so.
March 14, 2007
Texas Lawmakers Vote on Cancer Vaccine
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:59 a.m. ET
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas lawmakers are fighting to block the governor's order requiring that sixth-grade girls be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, with the House giving key approval to a bill to make the shots strictly voluntary.
Gov. Rick Perry's executive order has inflamed conservatives who say it contradicts Texas' abstinence-only sexual education policies and intrudes into family lives. Some critics also have questioned whether the vaccine has been proven safe.
The House voted 119-21 on Tuesday to approve a bill that would keep the vaccine off the list of required shots for school attendance. The measure was likely to get a final House vote Wednesday to send it on to the state Senate.
The 119 votes for the bill Tuesday would be more than enough to override a veto by the governor.
The vaccine protects girls against some strains of human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually transmitted virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer. A February report by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that one in four U.S. women ages 14 to 59 is infected with the virus.
Perry's order directed Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Albert Hawkins to adopt rules to vaccinate all girls entering the sixth grade as of September 2008. Parents could have refused the shots for their daughters.
Lawmakers said the governor cir vented the legislative process.
The bill adopted Tuesday ''will not take away the option for a single girl or a single family in this state to choose to vaccinate a child,'' said Republican Rep. Dennis Bonnen of Angleton, the lead author of the bill. ''It simply says a family must make that choice, not a state government.''
The governor's office has estimated that only 25 percent of young women in Texas would get the vaccine if it is not mandatory.
Critics also have argued that the vaccine, called Gardasil, was too new and its effects needed to be further studied before mandating it for Texas schoolgirls. The Food and Drug Administration approved Gardasil last year.
Elsewhere, a New Mexico bill that requiring the shots for sixth-grade girls is expected to be signed by the end of this week by Gov. Bill Richardson, spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said. And Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has said he would sign a similar bill passed by his state's Legislature.
Although the Wyoming Legislature recently rejected a request for $4 million specifically to fund HPV vaccination, the state's Department of Health intends to continue offering the vaccine to eligible girls with existing funding until the money run out.
In other states, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's budget proposal, unveiled in February, proposed offering free shots in a voluntary program to all girls ages 9 to 18. A California Assembly committee on Tuesday put off voting on a bill that would require girls entering the seventh grade to be vaccinated against HPV.
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Looks like Merck is gonna have problems using Gardisil to fill up the profit hole and lawsuit payments from Vioxx.
Booya, I win
apparently most of our state elected officials are pro cancer
April 26, 2007
Texas Legislators Block Shots for Girls Against Cancer Virus
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
HOUSTON, April 25 — A revolt by lawmakers has blocked Gov. Rick Perry’s effort to make Texas the first state to require sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
In a 135-to-2 vote that appeared veto-proof, the Texas House gave final passage on Wednesday to a Senate bill that bars the state from ordering the shots until at least 2011. Even many supporters of the governor resented Mr. Perry’s proposal as an abuse of executive authority.
“There was no public testimony — why we were jumping so fast into a vaccine that was not for a true communicable disease,” said Senator Glenn Hegar Jr., a Republican representing a district just west of Houston who sponsored the Senate bill to overturn the governor’s order. It passed 30 to 1 on Monday.
But Senator Leticia van de Putte, a Democrat from San Antonio who is a pharmacist and was the lone Senate vote for the vaccination program, said that with 400 deaths in Texas from cervical cancer each year, “I’m thinking of the women that will die because we didn’t act.”
Governor Perry, through his office, voiced regret at the legislative action but declined to say what his next step would be.
“The governor stayed true to his word to Texas women and continues to be their advocate,” said Krista Moody, a spokeswoman in Austin.
Mr. Perry, a Republican who was narrowly re-elected to his second full term in November, surprised almost everyone on Feb. 2 by bypassing the Republican-controlled Legislature and announcing the initiative.
He said he would sign an executive order directing the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to adopt rules requiring all 11- and 12-year old girls entering the sixth grade to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, starting in September 2008. The order allowed parents to let their daughters opt out of the program.
The vaccine, Gardasil, is manufactured by Merck, which was represented in Austin by the lobbyist Mike Toomey, who was chief of staff for Mr. Perry from 2002 to 2004.
The governor’s office denied any connection between the governor’s proposal and Mr. Toomey. A Merck spokesman declined to comment on the company’s lobbying.
But Merck, which had begun a campaign for Gardasil in legislatures around the country, reacted to growing opposition to proposed vaccine mandates by announcing in late February that it was dropping its legislative campaign.
While some health authorities and public advocates in Texas praised the governor’s order, many reacted angrily. Legislators argued that their authority had been usurped by the executive branch, which the state’s founding fathers intended as a weak branch of government.
On March 14, the Texas House voted 118 to 23 to prevent the health commission from issuing any vaccination mandate. But a Senate version of the bill, which prevailed Wednesday, provided that the ban would expire in four years, allowing lawmakers to revisit the issue. The next Legislature meets in 2009 and could vote to take up the issue then.
“We did not want to be the first in offering young girls for the experiment to see if this vaccine is effective or not,” said Representative Dennis H. Bonnen, a Republican from Angleton, who sponsored the ban in the House.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among other health authorities, describe Gardasil as safe and effective when given as approved to girls ages 9 to 26 in three shots over eight months.
Some Texas political analysts said Governor Perry had miscalculated.
Harvey Kronberg, editor of the legislative Web site Quorum Report, said the governor had failed to consult his two leading fellow Republicans, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who presides over the Senate, and the House speaker, Tom Crad .
“This kind of imperiousness offended his base,” Mr. Kronberg said.
Bill Miller, an Austin lobbyist close to the Republican leadership, said the mixture of “under-age girls, cancer and sex” had proven too volatile.
I think that I would take the word of physicians over the word of a bunch of legislators in Texas who are afraid to look like they are supporting girls having sex.
American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology
http://www.acog.org/from_home/public...nr08-08-06.cfmWashington, DC -- The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) today released clinical recommendations for females ages 9 to 26 for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in advance of their publication in the September 2006 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. A new committee opinion offers general information about the vaccine and addresses proper administration, precautions, and contraindications.
"The approval of this vaccine represents a significant development in women's health and the fight against cancer. Obstetrician-gynecologists should be proactive in educating our patients about the vaccine so that as many women as possible are able to take advantage of this medical milestone," said ACOG President Douglas W. Laube, MD, MEd. "We must be prepared both to administer the vaccine and to answer patient and parent questions that will arise," Dr. Laube added.
Centers for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/STDFact-H...htm#provhpvrecThe HPV vaccine is recommended for 11-12 year-old girls, but can be administered to girls as young as 9 years of age. The vaccine also is recommended for 13-26 year-old females who have not yet received or completed the vaccine series.
Ideally, the vaccine should be administered before onset of sexual activity. However, females who are sexually active also may benefit from vaccination. Females who have not been infected with any vaccine HPV type would receive the full benefit of vaccination. Females who already have been infected with one or more HPV type would still get protection from the vaccine types they have not acquired.
Didn't CBF say something at the beginning about how this was all about money?
Again- a bunch of conservative doctors in Texas worried about its ties to sex. I assure you, if it was for a disease that only kills males, they would be all over it. I know plenty of individual physicians who believe its a good thing.
Once again the entire elected legislative body of the state of texas has proven to be inhumane, and more ignorant than Republican Governor Rick Perry.
The mandate was premature. That's pretty clear. In the end, all the press is probably a positive since the issue of testing might be pursued more vigorously and many women might get the vaccine of their own free will.
http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_bl...ine-21325.aspx
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/334/7605/1182%20
http://www.forces-of-nature.net/topi..._C_and_HPV.htm
http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/con...tract/11/9/876
http://www.mothernature.com/Library/...ooks/10/46.cfm
So, Mamas and Papas, you don't need expensive, dangerous Merck hawked by corrupt politicans on the take from Big Pharma to protect your promiscuous daughters from HPV. A healthy girl with good nutrition can shake off HPV without drugs and without proceeding to cancer. HPV is not a death sentence, except for weakened, unhealthy girls.
Of course, you have real fight trying to get kids to eat correctly when the corps are flogging their toxic non-stop, and their parents eat poorly and over-eat themselves to over-weight and obesity.
It's such a racket. Corps sell you toxic as "food" that makes you weak and sick, then other corps sell you dangerous, expensive drugs to cure or prevent the unnecessary diseases.
None of them nor their politician/regulatory accomplices will tell you that THERE IS NO PROBLEM if you eat right in the first place.
NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published August 29 2007
Absurd vaccine marketing calls for cervical cancer vaccinations for young boys!
by Mike Adams
The headline for this story is not a typo. The push to sell more vaccines and pharmaceuticals has now reached a level of absurdity that should astonish any intelligent person. The mainstream media is now reporting -- and I'm not kidding -- that young boys should be vaccinated with Gardasil (the drug now being pushed onto teenage girls to supposedly prevent cervical cancer) based on the idea that if they have oral sex with girls who carry HPV, they might get throat cancer!
This is an incredible stretch of scientific credibility, and it's such a preposterous marketing campaign that only Big Pharma could have come up with it. It's obviously nothing more than a massive scare campaign to try to dream up some way to market this high-profit vaccine to a whole new group of customers who don't need it: teenage boys!
Even the idea of mandatory vaccinations for teenage girls is little more than desperate disease mongering designed to sell vaccines. Carrying HPV doesn't automatically lead to cervical cancer any more than carrying chicken pox turns you into a walking biological weapon. Most people who carry the virus show no symptoms at all, and girls with healthy immune systems and healthy lifestyles (diet, nutrition, etc.) have a near-zero risk of ever developing cervical cancer, even if they're exposed to HPV on a repeated basis. The virus isn't the disease: It's the terrain of the person carrying the virus! If they're unhealthy and vulnerable, then of course they're not going to be able to keep the virus in check.
We don't live in a sterile world, after all. There are more bacteria cells in your body right now than human cells, and we're surrounded by viruses, fungi and other germs. The whole idea of vaccinating against one particular strain that might someday, possibly, perhaps cause a problem if you have sex is just medical nonsense.
But vaccinating young boys is an even dumber idea. It's so stupid that I can't find the words to even describe how low on the IQ chart these drug marketing "experts" must be to come up with this one. They must think the public is so gullible that they can just make up any sex-related story and use it to sell drugs. Next, we'll be hearing about young boys giving themselves HPV through masturbation! And the cries for vaccinating all young boys will be something along the lines of, "If you masturbate, VACCINATE!"
Sadly, most consumers are so ignorant about reproductive health and germs in general that they'd probably buy into it. And if that campaign is successful, they'll go for the ultimate stupid scare tactic: The Doorknob Campaign (keep reading, if you dare...).
http://www.newstarget.com/z021999.html
if doctors want to buy a matching porsche, why should we hold them back and stop them short of fulfilling their dreams? it's only humans we're dealing with.
Judicial Watch Releases Analysis Of FDA Data Claiming Gardasil Vaccination Can Lead To Serious Health Problems, Death
08 Oct 2007
The conservative group Judicial Watch on Thursday released an analysis of FDA data that found Merck's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil might be dangerous or fatal to young women, members of the group said, CQ HealthBeat reports (Lubbes, CQ HealthBeat, 10/4).
Gardasil in clinical trials has been shown to be 100% effective in preventing infection with HPV strains 16 and 18, which together cause about 70% of cervical cancer cases, and about 99% effective in preventing HPV strains 6 and 11, which together with HPV strains 16 and 18 cause about 90% of genital wart cases among women not already infected with these strains.
FDA in June 2006 approved Gardasil for sale and marketing to girls and women ages nine to 26, and CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices later that month voted unanimously to recommend that girls ages 11 and 12 receive the vaccine, which is given in a three-shot series (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 7/10).
Analysis, CDC Data
According to Judicial Watch, 3,461 complaints about Gardasil have been filed with FDA's Vaccine Adverse Event Report System since its approval last year, and 11 women died after exposure to the vaccine. In addition, some women developed severe health problems after receiving Gardasil, the analysis said. Curtis Allen, a CDC spokesperson, said the agency has confirmed four deaths that occurred after the patients received Gardasil, but none of the deaths was linked directly to the vaccine. Allen said that there have been fewer complaints about adverse effects associated with Gardasil than there have been for other drugs.
Several of the reports to FDA of deaths of girls and women who received Gardasil note that the patient had developed a blood clot. Allen said that Gardasil is not known to increase risk of blood clots. He added that Judicial Watch's analysis does not prove that Gardasil causes death and that the reports of women who died after receiving the vaccine statistically are normal within the population.
According to CQ HealthBeat, there is disagreement over the data in part because the reports of adverse events come from several sources, including health professionals and pharmaceutical companies, which are required to disclose potential problems with vaccines, including rumors and third-party information. The Judicial Watch analysis includes a report about a doctor who at a conference heard about two patients dying after receiving Gardasil. Another incident involved the death of a 17-year-old girl immediately after receiving the vaccine, which was reported to FDA by "a gynecologist who was informed of the case from another gynecologist."
Reaction
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said that if Gardasil is "as dangerous as it seems to be, it does not seem to be good public health policy." Kelley Dougherty, a spokesperson for Merck, said that it is impossible to determine whether the reports are actual fatalities related to the vaccine or rumors. The FDA only do ents deaths that are reported but the agency does not show cause and effect, according to CQ HealthBeat. "There are no reporters that have a correlative effect," Dougherty said.
Allen said that Judicial Watch "is playing loose" with data on the vaccine. Fitton defended the group's analysis and added that it has filed a lawsuit against FDA to require the agency to provide more information about the vaccine. "The reports are what they are," Fitton said, adding, "The CDC can explain them away, and Merck can explain them away. I don't think it's just randomness" (CQ HealthBeat, 10/4).
The analysis is available online.
Bloomberg/Austin American-Statesman Examines Sales of Gardasil
In related news, Bloomberg/Austin American-Statesman on Friday examined how Gardasil "could become the best-selling vaccine in history" as Merck "prepares to expand its use to men."
According to Bloomberg/American-Statesman, Merck has made $1.4 billion in Gardasil sales in the drug's first year on the market. Merck is conducting studies to prove that Gardasil can prevent HPV infection in men. If the vaccine were approved for use in boys and men, annual sales of the vaccine could be as high as $10 billion, according to Lisa Kelly, an analyst at Wood Mackenzie Consultants (Cullen, Bloomberg/Austin American-Statesman, 10/5).
Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/healthpolicy. The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report is published for kaisernetwork.org, a free service of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation© 2005 Advisory Board Company and Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.
Article URL: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/84804.php
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The vaccine is unnecessary in healthy women who can shake off HPV infection like they can for most viruses.
By reading the first few pages of this thread you can see just how easy it is to take a giant bite of anything that Big Pharm or the Govt. tell you is good for you or your family. It was extremely disturbing that Perry would actually make it mandatory for every female child to be given a drug that had not been fully researched for long term effects or effects in certain parts of the population. Just the specter of medicinal allergies alone can cause all sorts of issues and child deaths because of the mandate, and obviously the big time dollars going to his buddies at Merck (some of which undoubtedly would have gotten redirected right back at Perry) were more important to Perry than the potential specter of thousands or millions of dead children. Can you imagine if this stuff was forced on people starting this year and it comes out that this kills even a moderately small percentage of the girls who get the vaccine?
MOney, Money money money money, MONEY!!! Our new GOD.
I must say, I haven't seen a whole lot of HPV awareness ads lately...
hpv killed my sister, and raped my mother!
funny how all the females havent posted for like 3 pages since elpimpo called them out
If you had to bet all your life earnings on which person would not support this HPV vaccine, who would you choose? ChumpDumper, Manny, or Keith Jackson?
It's a brainracker!
woah, theyre only making it mandatory because the poor people dont care about their BABYs health, nellie
but you only know one fact
If you had to bet all your life earnings on which person would not support this HPV vaccine, who would you choose? ChumpDumper, Manny, or Keith Jackson?
It's a brainracker!
manny watches 24
ROFLROFL
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