Vaccine for Girls Approved!
WASHINGTON, June 8 — Federal drug officials on Thursday announced the approval of a vaccine against cervical cancer that could eventually save thousands of lives each year in the United States and hundreds of thousands in the rest of the world.
Federal vaccine experts are widely expected to recommend that all 11- to 12-year-old girls get the vaccine, but its reach could be limited by its high price and religious objections to its use.
The vaccine prevents lasting infections with two human papillomavirus strains that cause 70 percent of cancers and another two strains that cause 90 percent of genital warts. But if girls have already been exposed to those strains, the vaccine has no effect, so health experts want the vaccine given before girls have sex. The median age at which girls have sex is 15.
** Nancy's comments **
Now of course the Conservative right didn't want little girls to have access to a life saving cancer stopping vaccine, because it would encourage them to go out and have sex! But THANK GOD we are not that stupid... this is truly surprising and very good news. America is not as crazy and stupid as we thought!
Federal vaccine experts are widely expected to recommend that all 11- to 12-year-old girls get the vaccine, but its reach could be limited by its high price and religious objections to its use.
The vaccine prevents lasting infections with two human papillomavirus strains that cause 70 percent of cancers and another two strains that cause 90 percent of genital warts. But if girls have already been exposed to those strains, the vaccine has no effect, so health experts want the vaccine given before girls have sex. The median age at which girls have sex is 15.
** Nancy's comments **
Now of course the Conservative right didn't want little girls to have access to a life saving cancer stopping vaccine, because it would encourage them to go out and have sex! But THANK GOD we are not that stupid... this is truly surprising and very good news. America is not as crazy and stupid as we thought!
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