Saturday, September 17, 2011

12 year old girls might mistake a HPV vaccine for a HIV vaccine

[Update 12/4/14: The video link for this clip has broken so I am going to link to an ibtimes story.  For some reason this post has become one of the most popular things on the blog, so I am going to try to clean it up.
Pressed on her opposition to a vaccination aimed at preventing cervical cancer, the congresswoman offered a new reason for her stand, the Los Angeles Times reported.
It gives a false sense of assurance to a young woman when she has that, that if she's sexually active that she doesn't have to worry about sexually transmitted diseases.]
Honestly why would a "young woman" with the HPV Vaccine have "a false sense of assurance" that "she doesn't have to worry about sexually transmitted diseases"? I think Bachmann made a great case for increasing education in Junior High about STDs if young women cannot understand the difference between HPV and HIV.

The "serious adverse event" rate of the HPV vaccines is .08% that is 8 in every 10,000 or 1 in every 80,000. The rate is so low that it is difficult to prove that the event was a side affect of the vaccine. You are just as likely to get a potential neurological disorder (GPS) from the vaccine as you are from not taking the vaccine: 1-2 in 100,000.

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