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@3Dlace (339)
United States
February 5, 2007 7:45pm CST
I was just skimming through MSN and I seen a disturbing headline about a public school requiring school girls to get a manditory STD vaccine shot. What is this about? What about the boy students? Where is our world heading with this? Do you really think they should even have this at schools today? My opinion. I don't think I'm going to let my daughter even go to a public school if this stuff happens. What if my daughter never turns out to be flirt and friskly active? She wouldn't need a "manditory" vaccine for something she didn't even have in the first place. It just rubs me the wrong way. What do you think?
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@GardenGerty (169568)
• United States
6 Feb 07
The vaccine they want to require is for a human papilloma virus, that causes genital warts, and cervical cancer. It does not have an effect on hpv in boys, that they know about yet. If they find that it does, say, prevent prostate cancer, I am sure they will require boys to take it. My daughter was not flirty, or frisky, and was a virgin when she was married. I would have had her take it if it was available. My thought is, hpv is a wart, and you get warts without contact that you know about, what if you could get hpv from a shower room--like athletes' foot, I would want her to be innoculated. It has been to be effective if given bdfore a girl is sexually active and exposed. This is only my opinion. I am greatly concerned that the cost will be prohibitive, however.
@msqtech (15073)
• United States
15 Feb 07
I think it should be offered but not as mandatory treatment and I think we should be careful of where the states authority should end.
@mememama (3076)
• United States
23 Feb 07
They are still testing it on boy students. Quite honestly, I don't think they'll ever try to make it mandatory for boys since they can't make money off of their fears. We as women fear cervical cancer, so they can make a lot of dough off of us. This vaccine only is for 4 strains of hpv, there are 100 out there. No vaccine is 100% effective either. This is why we have yearly pap smears once we become sexually active, for screening! Cervical cancer can be caught and treated early if you get that done. You can get exemptions should this ever become on the vaccine schedule at www.vaccinetruth.com
@msqtech (15073)
• United States
15 Feb 07
I think the health of our children needs to be monitored by the government but Mandatory protection is to much like Big Brother. If we need to be protected from an airborne disease then mandatory makes sense but not for sexually born illness