yes. hpv causes cervical cancer. the vaccine, if it proves effective in the long term, should prevent only cervical cancer. yes, it's only one, but one less cancer can't be a bad thing.
"Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a vaccine that is highly effective in preventing infection with types 16 and 18, two “high-risk” HPVs that cause most (70 percent) cervical cancers, and types 6 and 11, which cause most (90 percent) genital warts (4)."
source: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/HPV, the national cancer institute, part of the national institutes of health
On another forum I read, a specifically poly-related forum, people are lining up against this vaccine. The moderates claim hat the vaccine alters human DNA; the more hardcore deny that viruses and bacteria even cause disease to begin with--an idea which, for reasons I do not understand, is really gaining traction in the US today. For these people, all vaccinations of any kind are part of a plot by the medical community, in conspiracy with the government, to make money and "keep people sick."
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Date: 2006-11-30 11:28 pm (UTC)?? or is my brain still on cleaning fluids?
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Date: 2006-12-01 12:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-01 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-04 10:29 pm (UTC)Hey if it could be, then gayle and S and I could go back in time warp and get the shot and not have to deal with all that crap.
cancer free ! we hope recheck Thursday. :)
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Date: 2006-12-01 01:12 am (UTC)"Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a vaccine that is highly effective in preventing infection with types 16 and 18, two “high-risk” HPVs that cause most (70 percent) cervical cancers, and types 6 and 11, which cause most (90 percent) genital warts (4)."
source: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/HPV, the national cancer institute, part of the national institutes of health
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Date: 2006-12-03 04:13 am (UTC)I kid you not. It's kind of depressing, really.
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Date: 2006-12-03 04:44 am (UTC)what? you mean they are serious? *sigh*
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Date: 2006-12-03 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 08:50 pm (UTC)