Posted October 26, 200717 yr next year girls aged 12. 13. are due to be innoculated against cervical cancer. apparently the 'trigger' agent is spread by sex and many teenage girls are already carrying this agent. is mass innoculation a good thing?
October 26, 200717 yr Author Why on 12 and 13 year olds? Why not 14, 15, 16 and so on? older girls upto 19 can have it too, but i believe they have to request it. 12/13 year olds will get it routinely, that age possibly because puberty?
October 26, 200717 yr I can't see a problem with it, and they don't have to have it if they don't want. It's their decision.
October 26, 200717 yr Author the news now says 'girls between 12-18 are being offered the jab'... unlike breakfast tv where all 12/13 year olds were going to be routinely innocculated.
October 26, 200717 yr Why on 12 and 13 year olds? Why not 14, 15, 16 and so on? Older girls are more likely going to have had sex, so have possibly come into contact with the virus. The success rate on younger girls who haven't had sex was close to 100%, but with older girls who have had it, it was somewhere close to 50% I believe.
October 26, 200717 yr I'm totally for it, it's a preventative measure much like when I got innoculated against TB when I was at school... School innoculation programs get an unfairly bad press because of all the BS and misinformation surrounding the MMR jab....
October 26, 200717 yr I'm totally for it, it's a preventative measure much like when I got innoculated against TB when I was at school... I never had mine...should have done tho.. Edited October 26, 200717 yr by Daylight Dancer
October 27, 200717 yr Whilst anything that reduces chances of cancer has to be a good thing I am slightly concerned that this could lead to complacency amongst young women, who are already notoriously bad at going for smear tests. This "immunisation" is only really effective if given before any sexual experience. But if young girls have this and then consider themselves 'immune' to cancer and so don't continue to have routine smear tests I can see the death rate rising. Cervical cancer is one that by the time you get symtoms is it often too late.
October 27, 200717 yr oh and they don't give TB immunisations any more - despite a resurgence in case :rolleyes:
October 30, 200717 yr We have a resurgence of TB here too after being totally free of it for near on 30 years.
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