There has been a lot of debate about vaccinating pre-teen girls against sexually transmitted HPV infections over that it might actually encourage them to have sex. A new study looks at that and doesn't find a correlation. This is a somewhat poorly written article as the main findings are at the bottom so I have bolded them. http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/201...vaccine-doesnt-spur-teen-sex-study-finds?lite HPV vaccine doesn't spur teen sex, study finds The HPV vaccine does not send teenage girls out seeking sex, contrary to the protests of some parents who worried about immunizing young girls against a sexually transmitted virus, researchers reported Monday. While several surveys of teen girls suggested they would not feel free to have sex just because they’d been vaccinated against the virus, this is the first one to make sure that girls were not, in fact, more likely to engage in sexual activity after vaccination. “We wanted to do an objective clinical survey using data,” said Robert Bednarczyk of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research and Emory University in Atlanta, who led the study. The human papillomavirus, or HPV, is the main cause of cervical cancer, as well as genital warts. It can also cause other cancers, including cancer of the mouth, head and neck, penis and anus. The vaccine protects against the main cancer-causing strains. “In 2006, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that all US girls aged 11 to 12 receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, with catch-up vaccination recommended through age 26, and administration permitted as young as 9 years,” Bednarczyk’s team wrote in their report, published in the journal Pediatrics. Many parents were dubious about vaccinating such young girls against a sexually transmitted disease. A few, and some religious groups, said the vaccine would even encourage sexual activity. But HPV is extremely common. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 20 million Americans are currently infected with HPV. Another 6 million people become newly infected each year. For most, the virus clears their system on its own, but at least 50 percent of sexually active men and women are infected at some point in their lives. Some estimates range as high as 80 percent. “About one-third of 14- to 19-year-olds are positive for at least one HPV strain,” Bednarczyk said. And a study published in August found some girls were infected even if they'd never had sex. There were no differences between girls who got HPV vaccine and girls who got other vaccines but not HPV, the team found. “Overall, what we found through the whole follow-up study was among 1,400 girls only eight actual cases of either pregnancy or sexually transmitted infection,” Bednarczyk said. The rates were identical in the HPV vaccine and non-HPV-vaccine groups. “We feel this is reassuring,” he said. “We can start to move beyond these concerns.” Rates of sexual activity are going down among school-aged children. The CDC says while 39 percent of all 15- to 17-year-olds had had sex in 1995, the rate fell to 27 percent by 2010. But around 3 percent of girls report they started having sex before the age of 13.
HPV vaccine is stupid. My ex-wife had to get the Gardasil vaccine as a requirement to migrate to the U.S . It shares similar chemical ingredients to rat poison and it only treats 4 different types of HPV when there are more than 200 different types of HPV out there. So it treats less than 2% of known HPVs out there and has similar traits to rat poison. It's a stupid vaccine.
Wiki is not the be all end all, and I am anything but a vaccine freak (or anti-freak), but Gardasil, lobbying and politicizing aside, seems to be the opposite of stupid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardasil Vaccines often contain chemicals that in other uses and certainly other - typically much higher - dosages can be harmful/very harmful. One needs to look at the facts intelligently, and not simple spout that rat poison and the vaccine have some common ingredients in an attempt to make it seems as if one is akin to the other.
It never seemed logical to think that an HPV vaccine would incentivize sex. Girls were never thinking twice because of HPV. The fears that might discourage sexual activity are pregnancy and AIDS.
What?!? People tried to use fear, uncertainty, and doubt to affect public health policy? Surely not!!!
of course it doesn't, there are hundreds of other diseases that can be transmitted sexually. Repugs are just ****ing r****ds.
I'm clean thankfully. Only virus I got from her is lying and cheating w**** virus which was vaccinated in the form of no contest divorce.
I couldn't agree with you more. The argument linking promiscuity of teens to the use of vaccine to prevent HPV genital warts is at the very least pathetic. Indeed, we cannot use such issue to question or criticize public health policy. That is overstretching the argument a bit too far.
Despite the contending positions and opinions, one thing is undeniably clear as far as treatment of HPV genital warts is concerned. The most logical way to prevent having this viral infection is through vaccination. Well, you can also avoid this problem if you choose to be celibate and abstain from all forms of sexual activities for the rest of life.
For most of the opponents rationality is not an issue. You have the scientifically challenged. Then you have the religious types who seem most interested in having any sort of sex outside of formally declared and state sanctioned marriage result in disease or pregnancy. Considering this desire to have those who cannot afford children have children from such sex, I I think they also might view such pregnancy, (as well as diseases) as a fitting punishment,despite a claim to love families and children.
