Shocking News On the HPV Vaccine

The Science Behind It.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is a vaccine that targets certain sexually transmitted strains of human papillomavirus associated with the development of cervical cancer and genital warts. To HPV vaccines are currently on the market: Gardasil and Cervarix.

Of the more than 100 known HPV types, 37 are known to be transmitted through sexual contact. Infection with sexually transmitted HPVs is very common in adult populations worldwide. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association and by the age of 50 more than 80% of American women will have contracted at least one strain of HPV. Most people who contract the virus will not develop cervical cancer; however, each year between 250,000 and 1 million American women are diagnosed with cervical dysplasia, which is caused by HPV and is a potential precursor to cervical cancer. Cervical dysplasia may require treatment. In addition, 80% of deaths from cervical cancer occur in poor countries.

For these reasons, some public health officials recommend widespread vaccination against HPV.

Why all the controversy. How can one vaccine cause so much controversy and concern across the nation.

Let’s hear what people are saying about this vaccine?

What is this vaccine and why is it causing such an uproar across the globe? Let us hear what the news and what people really think about the HPV vaccine.

HPV vaccine. (2008, July 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 01:58, July 23, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HPV_vaccine&oldid=226856015